1944 in Brazil

Events in the year 1944 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President: Getúlio Vargas

Governors

 * Alagoas: Ismar de Góis Monteiro
 * Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
 * Bahia: Renato Onofre Pinto Aleixo
 * Ceará: Francisco de Meneses Pimentel
 * Espírito Santo: João Punaro Bley
 * Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
 * Maranhão:
 * Mato Grosso: Júlio Strübing Müller
 * Minas Gerais: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro
 * Pará: Magalhães Barata
 * Paraíba: Rui Carneiro
 * Paraná: Manuel Ribas
 * Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
 * Piauí: Leônidas Melo
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão/Antonio Fernandes Dantas
 * Rio Grande do Sul: Ernesto Dornelles
 * Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
 * São Paulo: Fernando de Sousa Costa
 * Sergipe: Augusto Maynard Gomes

Vice governors

 * Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
 * São Paulo: no vice governor

Events

 * 1 January - The former Royal Military Academy expends into the city of Resende.
 * 2 July - Second World War: The first five thousand Brazilian Expeditionary Force soldiers, the 6th RCT, leave Brazil for Europe aboard the USNS General Mann.
 * September - Brazilian air-land forces go into action in Italy.
 * 31 October - Brazilian pilots begin operations, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons.
 * date unknown
 * The Banco Nacional is founded in São Paulo.
 * Getúlio Vargas allocated an area of 4 million square meters near Santa Maria for the purpose of building an aerodrome. Santa Maria Airport opens the following year.

Books

 * Jorge Amado - São Jorge dos Ilhéus
 * Oswald de Andrade - Meu Testamento

Films

 * Corações Sem Piloto
 * Berlim na Batucada
 * É Proibido Sonhar
 * O Brasileiro João de Souza

Music

 * Camargo Guarnieri - Symphony no 1

Births

 * 8 February - Sebastião Salgado, photojournalist
 * 19 June - Chico Buarque, singer, dramatist, writer and poet
 * 2 August - Naná Vasconcelos, jazz musician (died 2016)
 * 18 October - Nelson Freire, pianist (died 2021)
 * 9 November - Torquato Neto, journalist, poet and songwriter (died 1972)
 * 13 December - Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira ("Léo"), comics creator
 * 15 December - Chico Mendes, rubber tapper and activist (died 1988)

Deaths

 * 29 April - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal 1915–17 and 1925–26 (born 1851)