1987 in Brazil

Events in the year 1987 in Brazil:

Federal government

 * President: José Sarney
 * Vice President: Vacant

Governors

 * Acre:
 * Iolanda Fleming (until 15 March)
 * Flaviano Melo (from 15 March)
 * Alagoas:
 * José de Medeiros Tavares (until 15 March)
 * Fernando Collor de Mello (from 15 March)
 * Amazonas:
 * Gilberto Mestrinho (until 15 March)
 * Amazonino Mendes (from 15 March)
 * Bahia:
 * João Durval Carneiro (until 15 March)
 * Waldir Pires (from 15 March)
 * Ceará:
 * Gonzaga Mota (until 15 March)
 * Tasso Jereissati (from 15 March)
 * Espírito Santo:
 * José Moraes (until 15 March)
 * Max Freitas Mauro (from 15 March)
 * Goiás:
 * Onofre Quinan (until 15 March)
 * Henrique Santillo (from 15 March)
 * Maranhão:
 * Luís Rocha (until 15 March)
 * Epitácio Cafeteira (from 15 March)
 * Mato Grosso:
 * Wilmar Peres de Faria (until 15 March)
 * Carlos Bezerra (from 15 March)
 * Mato Grosso do Sul:
 * Ramez Tebet (until 15 March)
 * Marcelo Miranda Soares (from 15 March)
 * Minas Gerais:
 * Hélio Garcia (until 15 March)
 * Newton Cardoso (from 15 March)
 * Pará:
 * Jader Barbalho (until 15 March)
 * Hélio Gueiros (from 15 March)
 * Paraíba:
 * Milton Bezerra Cabral (until 15 March)
 * Tarcísio Burity (from 15 March)
 * Paraná:
 * João Elísio Ferraz de Campos (until 15 March)
 * Alvaro Dias (from 15 March)
 * Pernambuco:
 * Gustavo Krause (until 15 March)
 * Miguel Arraes (from 15 March)
 * Piauí:
 * Bona Medeiros (until 15 March)
 * Alberto Silva (from 15 March)
 * Rio de Janeiro:
 * Leonel Brizola then Moreira Franco
 * Rio Grande do Norte:
 * Radir Pereira de Araujo (until 15 March)
 * Geraldo José Ferreira de Melo (from 15 March)
 * Rio Grande do Sul:
 * Jair de Oliveira Soares (until 15 March)
 * Pedro Simon (from 15 March)
 * Rondônia:
 * Ângelo Angelin (until 15 March)
 * Jerônimo Garcia de Santana (from 15 March)
 * Santa Catarina:
 * Esperidião Amin (until 15 March)
 * Pedro Ivo Campos (from 15 March)
 * São Paulo:
 * André Franco Montoro (until 15 March)
 * Orestes Quércia (from 15 March)
 * Sergipe:
 * João Alves Filho (until 15 March)
 * Antônio Carlos Valadares (from 15 March)

Vice governors

 * Acre: Edison Simão Cadaxo (from 15 March)
 * Alagoas: Moacir Andrade (from 15 March)
 * Amazonas: Vivaldo Barros Frota (from 15 March)
 * Bahia:
 * Edvaldo de Oliveira Flores (until 15 March)
 * Nilo Moraes Coelho (from 15 March)
 * Ceará:
 * José Adauto Bezerra (until 15 March)
 * Francisco Castelo de Castro (from 15 March)
 * Espírito Santo:
 * José Moraes (until 15 March)
 * Carlos Alberto Batista da Cunha (from 15 March)
 * Goiás: Joaquim Domingos Roriz (from 15 March)
 * Maranhão:
 * João Rodolfo Ribeiro Gonçalves (until 15 March)
 * João Alberto Souza (from 15 March)
 * Mato Grosso: Edison de Oliveira (from 15 March)
 * Mato Grosso do Sul:
 * Vacant (until 15 March)
 * George Takimoto (from 15 March)
 * Minas Gerais: Júnia Marise de Azeredo Coutinho (from 15 March)
 * Pará:
 * Laércio Dias Franco (until 15 March)
 * Hermínio Calvinho Filho (from 15 March)
 * Paraíba:
 * Antônio da Costa Gomes (until 15 March)
 * Vacant (from 15 March)
 * Paraná: Ary Veloso Queiroz (from 15 March)
 * Pernambuco: Carlos Wilson Rocha de Queirós Campos (from 15 March)
 * Piauí: Lucídio Portela Nunes (from 15 March)
 * Rio de Janeiro:
 * Darcy Ribeiro (until 15 March)
 * Francisco Amaral (from 15 March)
 * Rio Grande do Norte:
 * Vacant (until 15 March)
 * Garibaldi Alves (from 15 March)
 * Rio Grande do Sul:
 * Cláudio Ênio Strassburger (until 15 March)
 * Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli (from 15 March)
 * Rondônia: Orestes Muniz Filho (from 15 March)
 * Santa Catarina:
 * Victor Fontana (until 15 March)
 * Casildo João Maldaner (from 15 March)
 * São Paulo:
 * Vacant (until 15 March)
 * Almino Afonso (from 15 March)
 * Sergipe:
 * Antônio Carlos Valadares (until 15 March)
 * Benedito de Figueiredo (from 15 March)

February

 * 1 February: The National Constituent Assembly is installed by the President of the Supreme Federal Court, José Carlos Moreira Alves.
 * 25 February: The Central Bank of Brazil decides to intervene in banks in the states of Maranhão, Ceará, Mato Grosso, Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina.

June

 * 12 June: President José Sarney announces the launch of the Bresser Plan, which freezes rents and wages.

July

 * July 26: Around 70 people are killed, after a crash between two tourist buses and a Voyage car on BR-040, which connects Rio de Janeiro to Belo Horizonte in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais.

August

 * 1 August: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is chosen as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic by the Workers' Party.

September

 * 13 September: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.

December

 * 7 December: Brasília is declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

January

 * January 10: César Cielo, swimmer
 * January 15: Jesus Luz, model and DJ

March

 * March 20: Jô, footballer

April

 * April 22: David Luiz, footballer

June

 * June 6: Cássio, footballer
 * June 25: Hugo Bonemer, actor

July

 * July 23: Luis Gustavo, footballer

October

 * October 11: Andressa Urach, model & reality television star

December

 * December 13: Weverton, footballer
 * December 31: Maiara & Maraisa, musical duo

February

 * February 2: Carlos Castilho, footballer (b. 1927)

August

 * August 17: Carlos Drummond de Andrade, poet and writer (b. 1902)

September

 * September 18: Golbery do Couto e Silva, general and politician (b. 1911)