1963 in Brazil

Events in the year 1963 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President: João Goulart
 * Prime Minister: Hermes Lima (until 23 January)
 * Vice President: vacant

Governors

 * Acre: Vacant
 * Alagoas: Luis Cavalcante
 * Amazonas:
 * Gilberto Mestrinho (until 25 March)
 * Plínio Ramos Coelho (from 25 March)
 * Bahia:
 * Juracy Magalhães (until 7 April)
 * Lomanto Junior (from 7 April)
 * Ceará:
 * Parsifal Barroso (until 25 March)
 * Virgílio Távora (from 25 March)
 * Espírito Santo:
 * Asdrúbal Martins Soares (until 31 January)
 * Francisco Lacerda de Aguiar (from 31 January)
 * Goiás: Mauro Borges
 * Guanabara: Carlos Lacerda
 * Maranhão: Newton de Barros Belo
 * Mato Grosso: Fernando Corrêa da Costa
 * Minas Gerais: José de Magalhães Pinto
 * Pará: Aurélio do Carmo
 * Paraíba: Pedro Gondim
 * Paraná: Nei Braga
 * Pernambuco:
 * Cid Sampaio (until 31 January)
 * Miguel Arraes (from 31 January)
 * Piauí:
 * Tibério Nunes (until 25 March)
 * Petrônio Portella (from 25 March)
 * Rio de Janeiro:
 * José Janotti (until 18 January)
 * Luís Miguel Pinaud (18 January-31 January)
 * Badger da Silveira (from 31 January)
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Aluízio Alves
 * Rio Grande do Sul:
 * Leonel Brizola (until 25 March)
 * Ildo Meneghetti (from 25 March)
 * Santa Catarina: Celso Ramos
 * São Paulo:
 * Carlos Alberto Alves de Carvalho Pinto (until 31 January)
 * Ademar de Barros (from 31 January)
 * Sergipe:
 * Dionísio Machado (until 30 January)
 * Horácio Dantas de Goes (30 January-31 January)
 * João de Seixas Dória (from 31 January)

Vice governors

 * Alagoas: Teotônio Brandão Vilela
 * Bahia: Orlando Moscoso
 * Ceará:
 * Wilson Gonçalves (until 31 January)
 * Joaquim de Figueiredo Correia (from 25 March)
 * Espírito Santo: Rubens Rangel (from 31 January)
 * Goiás:
 * Antônio Rezende Monteiro (until 31 January)
 * Vacant thereafter (from 31 January)
 * Maranhão: Alfredo Salim Duailibe
 * Mato Grosso: Jose Garcia Neto
 * Minas Gerais: Clóvis Salgado da Gama
 * Pará: Newton Burlamaqui de Miranda
 * Paraíba: André Avelino de Paiva Gadelha
 * Pernambuco: Paulo Pessoa Guerra
 * Piauí: João Clímaco d'Almeida
 * Rio de Janeiro: João Batista da Costa (from 31 January)
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Teodorico Bezerra (from 19 January)
 * Santa Catarina: Armindo Marcílio Doutel de Andrade
 * São Paulo:
 * Porfírio da Paz (until 31 January)
 * Laudo Natel (from 31 January)
 * Sergipe: Celso Carvalho (from 31 January)

January

 * January 6: A plebiscite chooses the presidential system over a parliamentary one. As a result, the office of the Prime Minister is abolished.
 * January 8: The flag of Minas Gerais is instituted.

March

 * March 12: The first Korean immigrants arrive in Brazil.

April

 * April 20-May 5: The 1963 Pan American Games are held in São Paulo.

May

 * May 23: The Brazilian national team wins its second World Men's Basketball Championship by beating the Soviet Union by 90 to 79 points, in Rio de Janeiro.

July

 * July 20: Ieda Maria Vargas becomes the first Brazilian to win the Miss Universe title, which is held in Miami Beach, Florida, United States of America.

October

 * October 7: The Ipatinga massacre takes place, after military police shot at Usiminas employees.

November

 * November 16: Santos FC becomes the first Brazilian club to win a second Intercontinental Cup (football).

December

 * December 4: Senator Arnon de Melo, who was trying to shoot Senator Silvestre Péricles, shot and killed alternate Senator José Kairala.

January

 * January 5 – Luís Carlos Winck, footballer and coach
 * January 12 – Nando Reis, musician and producer

March

 * March 11 – Marcos Pontes, astronaut and politician

October

 * October 31 – Dunga, footballer and coach

November

 * November 2 – Valdemiro Santiago, evangelical pastor

Deaths

 * November 4 – Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo, poet and writer (b. 1872)