1991 in Brazil

Events in the year 1991 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President: Fernando Collor de Mello
 * Vice President: Itamar Franco

Governors

 * Acre:
 * Édison Simão Cadaxo (until 15 March)
 * Edmundo Pinto (from 15 March)
 * Alagoas:
 * Moacir Andrade (until 15 March)
 * Geraldo Bulhões (from 15 March)
 * Amapa: Annibal Barcellos (from 1 January)
 * Amazonas:
 * Vivaldo Barroso Frota (until 15 March)
 * Gilberto Mestrinho (from 15 March)
 * Bahia:
 * Nilo Moraes Coelho (until 15 March)
 * Antônio Carlos Magalhães (from 15 March)
 * Ceará:
 * Tasso Jereissati (until 15 March)
 * Ciro Gomes (from 15 March)
 * Espírito Santo:
 * Max Freitas Mauro (until 15 March)
 * Albuíno Cunha de Azeredo (from 15 March)
 * Federal District: Wanderley Vallim
 * Goiás:
 * Henrique Santillo (until 15 March)
 * Iris Rezende (from 15 March)
 * Maranhão:
 * João Alberto de Souza (until 15 March)
 * Edison Lobão (from 15 March)
 * Mato Grosso:
 * Edison de Oliveira (until 15 March)
 * Jayme Campos (from 15 March)
 * Mato Grosso do Sul:
 * Marcelo Miranda Soares (until 1 March)
 * Pedro Pedrossian (from 1 March)
 * Minas Gerais:
 * Newton Cardoso (until 15 March)
 * Hélio Garcia (from 15 March)
 * Pará:
 * Hélio Gueiros (until 15 March)
 * Jader Barbalho (from 15 March)
 * Paraíba:
 * Tarcísio Burity (until 15 March)
 * Ronaldo Cunha Lima (from 15 March)
 * Paraná:
 * Alvaro Dias (until 15 March)
 * Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva (from 15 March)
 * Pernambuco:
 * Joaquim Francisco Cavalcanti (until 15 March)
 * Joaquim Francisco Cavalcanti (from 15 March)
 * Piauí:
 * Alberto Silva (until 15 March)
 * Freitas Neto (from 15 March)
 * Rio de Janeiro:
 * Moreira Franco (until 15 March)
 * Leonel Brizola (from 15 March)
 * Rio Grande do Norte:
 * Geraldo José Ferreira de Melo (until 15 March)
 * José Agripino Maia (from 15 March)
 * Rio Grande do Sul:
 * Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli (until 15 March)
 * Alceu de Deus Collares (from 15 March)
 * Rondônia:
 * Jerônimo Garcia de Santana (until 15 March)
 * Oswaldo Piana Filho (from 15 March)
 * Roraima:
 * Rubens Vilar (until 15 March)
 * Ottomar de Sousa Pinto (from 15 March)
 * Santa Catarina:
 * Casildo Maldaner (until 15 March)
 * Vilson Kleinübing (from 15 March)
 * São Paulo:
 * Orestes Quércia (until 15 March)
 * Luís Antônio Fleury Filho (from 15 March)
 * Sergipe:
 * Antônio Carlos Valadares (until 15 March)
 * João Alves Filho (from 15 March)
 * Tocantins:
 * José Wilson Siqueira Campos (until 15 March)
 * Moisés Nogueira Avelino (from 15 March)

Vice governors

 * Acre: Romildo Magalhães da Silva (from 15 March)
 * Alagoas: Francisco Roberto Holanda de Melo (from 15 March)
 * Amapá: Ronaldo Pinheiro Borges (from 1 January)
 * Amazonas: Francisco Garcia Rodrigues (from 15 March)
 * Bahia: Paulo Souto (from 15 March)
 * Ceará:
 * Francisco Castelo de Castro (until 15 March)
 * Lúcio Gonçalo de Alcântara (from 15 March)
 * Espírito Santo:
 * Carlos Alberto Batista da Cunha (until 15 March)
 * Adelson Antônio Salvador (from 15 March)
 * Goiás:
 * Joaquim Domingos Roriz (until 15 March)
 * Luís Alberto Maguito Vilela (from 15 March)
 * Maranhão: José de Ribamar Fiquene (from 15 March)
 * Mato Grosso: Osvaldo Roberto Sobrinho (from 15 March)
 * Mato Grosso do Sul:
 * George Takimoto (until 14 March)
 * Ary Rigo (from 15 March)
 * Minas Gerais:
 * Júnia Marise de Azeredo Coutinho (until 31 January)
 * Arlindo Porto Neto (from 15 March)
 * Pará:
 * Hermínio Calvinho Filho (until 15 March)
 * Carlos José Oliveira Santos (from 15 March)
 * Paraíba: Cícero Lucena Filho (from 15 March)
 * Paraná:
 * Ary Veloso Queiroz (until 15 March)
 * Mário Pereira (from 15 March)
 * Pernambuco: Carlos Roberto Guerra Fontes (from 15 March)
 * Piauí:
 * Lucídio Portela Nunes (until 15 March)
 * Guilherme Cavalcante de Melo (from 15 March)
 * Rio de Janeiro:
 * Francisco de Assis Amaral (until 15 March)
 * Nilo Batista (from 15 March)
 * Rio Grande do Norte:
 * Garibaldi Alves (until 15 March)
 * Vivaldo Costa (from 15 March)
 * Rio Grande do Sul: João Gilberto Lucas Coelho (from 15 March)
 * Rondônia:
 * Orestes Muniz Filho (until 15 March)
 * Assis Canuto (from 15 March)
 * Roraima: Antônio Airton Oliveira Dias (from 1 January)
 * Santa Catarina: Antônio Carlos Konder Reis (from 15 March)
 * São Paulo:
 * Vacant (until 15 March)
 * Aloysio Nunes (from 15 March)
 * Sergipe:
 * Benedito de Figueiredo (until 15 March)
 * José Carlos Mesquita Teixeira (from 15 March)
 * Tocantins:
 * Darci Martins Coelho (until 15 March)
 * Paulo Sidnei Antunes (from 15 March)

January

 * 1 January: Amapá, a former territory, becomes Brazil's 26th state. It was the most recent state to be established in the country.
 * 2 January: Creation of Pedra Azul State Park, in Espírito Santo.
 * 11 January: President Fernando Collor de Mello signs Decree No. 1, also known as the Royalties Law, which regulates the payment of royalties to municipalities producing ore and electricity.
 * 18 January: The second edition of the Rock in Rio music festival takes place at the Maracanã stadium.

March

 * 26 March: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing the South Common Market (Mercosur is its acronym in Spanish).

May

 * 30 May: Florisvaldo de Oliveira, also known as "Cabo Bruno"; accused of over 50 murders, is arrested in Santo Amaro, in the state of São Paulo.
 * 31 May: Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement, visits Brazil and proposes the idea of an Economy of Communion.

August

 * 1-6 August: South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela makes a six-day visit to Brazil, arriving in Rio de Janeiro.

September

 * 30 September: A tornado destroys parts of Itu, a city in southeastern Brazil, killing 16 and leaving 176 injured.

October

 * 12-21 October: Pope John Paul II makes a ten-day visit to Brazil.

January

 * 8 January: Allan, footballer
 * 17 January: Tiquinho Soares, footballer
 * 26 January: Alex Sandro, footballer

March

 * 13 March: Luan Santana, singer

April

 * 4 April: Lucas Lucco, singer, songwriter and actor
 * 9 April: Sancler Frantz, model and journalist

June

 * 21 June: Bruno Aquino, footballer
 * 26 June: Jesuíta Barbosa, actor

August

 * 28 August: Humberto Carrão, actor

September

 * 3 September: Maurício Destri, actor
 * 9 September: Oscar, footballer
 * 16 September: Marlon Teixeira, model

October

 * 2 October: Roberto Firmino, footballer

November

 * 6 November: Camila Finn, model

January

 * 7 January: José Guilherme Merquior, diplomat and philosopher (born 1941)
 * 17 January: Antônio Villas Boas, farmer who claimed alien abduction (born 1934)
 * 31 January: Márcio Melo, politician (born 1906)

March

 * 9 March: Ely do Amparo, footballer (born 1921)

July

 * 31 July: João Chedid, Maronite bishop (born 1914)

December

 * 4 December: Moysés Baumstein, holographer and artist (born 1931)