2013 in Brazil

Events from the year 2013 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President: Dilma Rousseff
 * Vice President: Michel Temer
 * President of the Chamber of Deputies: Henrique Eduardo Alves
 * President of the Senate: Renan Calheiros

Governors

 * Acre: Tião Viana
 * Alagoas: Teotônio Vilela Filho
 * Amapa: Camilo Capiberibe
 * Amazonas: Omar Aziz
 * Bahia: Jaques Wagner
 * Ceará: Cid Gomes
 * Espírito Santo: Renato Casagrande
 * Goiás: Marconi Perillo
 * Maranhão: Roseana Sarney
 * Mato Grosso: Silval da Cunha
 * Mato Grosso do Sul: André Puccinelli
 * Minas Gerais: Antônio Anastasia
 * Pará: Simão Jatene
 * Paraíba: Ricardo Coutinho
 * Paraná: Beto Richa
 * Pernambuco: Eduardo Campos
 * Piauí: Wilson Martins
 * Rio de Janeiro: Sérgio Cabral Filho
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Rosalba Ciarlini Rosado
 * Rio Grande do Sul: Tarso Genro
 * Rondônia: Confúcio Moura
 * Roraima: José de Anchieta Júnior
 * Santa Catarina – Raimundo Colombo
 * São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
 * Sergipe:
 * Marcelo Déda (until 2 December)
 * Jackson Barreto (starting 2 December)
 * Tocantins: Siqueira Campos

Vice governors

 * Acre:	Carlos César Correia de Messias
 * Alagoas: José Thomaz da Silva Nonô Neto
 * Amapá: Doralice Nascimento de Souza
 * Amazonas: José Melo de Oliveira
 * Bahia: Otto Alencar
 * Ceará: Domingos Gomes de Aguiar Filho
 * Espírito Santo: Givaldo Vieira da Silva
 * Goiás: José Eliton de Figueiredo Júnior
 * Maranhão: Joaquim Washington Luiz de Oliveira
 * Mato Grosso: Francisco Tarquínio Daltro
 * Mato Grosso do Sul: Simone Tebet
 * Minas Gerais: Alberto Pinto Coelho Júnior
 * Pará: Helenilson Cunha Pontes
 * Paraíba: Rômulo José de Gouveia
 * Paraná: Flávio José Arns
 * Pernambuco: João Soares Lyra Neto
 * Piauí: Wilson Martins
 * Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Fernando Pezão
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Robinson Faria
 * Rio Grande do Sul: Jorge Alberto Duarte Grill
 * Rondônia: Airton Pedro Gurgacz
 * Roraima: Francisco de Assis Rodrigues
 * Santa Catarina: Eduardo Pinho Moreira
 * São Paulo: Guilherme Afif Domingos
 * Sergipe: Jackson Barreto
 * Tocantins: João Oliveira de Sousa

Events

 * 2013 protests in Brazil

January

 * January 1: Mayors and councilors, who were elected in the 2012 municipal elections, take office in all Brazilian cities.
 * January 27: A nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul kills at least 242 people.

March

 * March 8: Former goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza is sentenced to 22 years and three months in prison for the death of his ex-girlfriend Eliza Samudio.
 * March 13: Drug lord Fernandinho Beira-Mar is sentenced in Rio de Janeiro to 80 years in prison for crimes committed in 2002.
 * March 14: Ex-boyfriend Mizael Bispo de Souza is sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of lawyer Mércia Nakashima.
 * March 19: The Federal Senate of Brazil unanimously approves the proposal to expand the rights of domestic workers.
 * March 29-31: The second Brazilian version of the Lollapalooza music festival is held at the Jockey Club in São Paulo.

May

 * May 4: Nhá Chica becomes the first laywoman and Afro-Brazilian to be declared blessed by the Catholic Church.
 * May 7: The president of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso, José Geraldo Riva is removed from office, after being accused of embezzling $4.7 million USD.

June

 * June 6: Demonstrations against the increase in public transport fares begin in São Paulo and other cities across the country.
 * June 30: Brazil defeats Spain 3-0 at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, to win their fourth FIFA Confederations Cup trophy.

July

 * July 22: Pope Francis arrives in Brazil, for his first international trip.
 * July 23
 * World Youth Day begins in Rio de Janeiro.
 * Snow falls in Curitiba for the first time since 1975.

November

 * November 14: National Institute for Space Research (INPE) satellite data revealed a 30% increase of deforestation in the Amazon in 2013.

January

 * January 10: Jorge Selarón, 65, painter and ceramist (Escadaria Selarón).
 * January 15: Clayton Silva, 74, actor and comedian (A Praça é Nossa), cancer.
 * January 18: Walmor Chagas, 82, actor (Xica da Silva, São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima), apparent suicide by gunshot.
 * January 22: Lídia Mattos, 88, actress, pneumonia.
 * January 24: Zózimo Bulbul, 75, actor (Quilombo, Sagarana: The Duel) and filmmaker, heart attack.

February

 * February 14: Fernando Lyra, 74, politician, Minister of Justice (1985–1986), cardiopathy.

March

 * March 6: Chorão, 42, musician (Charlie Brown Jr.), cocaine overdose.
 * March 20: Emílio Santiago, 66, singer, complications from a stroke.

April

 * April 8: Waldemar Esteves da Cunha, 92, carnival king, respiratory failure and Alzheimer's disease.
 * April 15: Cleyde Yáconis, 89, film, stage and television actress, ischemia.
 * April 28: Paulo Vanzolini, 89, zoologist, poet and samba composer (Onze sambas e uma capoeira), complications of pneumonia.
 * April 30: Tito Buss, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rio do Sul (1969–2000).

May

 * May 5: Peu Sousa, 35, guitarist (Nove Mil Anjos, Pitty) and record producer, suicide by hanging.
 * May 26: Roberto Civita, 76, businessman, CEO of Grupo Abril, heart failure.
 * May 28: Silvério Paulo de Albuquerque, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caetité (1970–1973) and Feira de Santana (1973–1995).

June

 * June 3: Eugênio Izecksohn, 81, herpetologist (Izecksohn's Toad), professor and author.
 * June 5: Scarlet Moon de Chevalier, 62, actress, journalist and writer, multiple system atrophy.
 * June 7: Malu Rocha, 65, actress, prion.
 * June 12:
 * José de Lima, 89, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itumbiara (1973–1981) and Sete Lagoas (1981–1999).
 * Teodoro Matos Santana, 66, footballer (São Paulo FC), pancreatic cancer.
 * June 15: Tatiana Belinky, 94, children's writer
 * June 21: Marcelo Grassmann, 88, engraver and draughtsman.
 * June 26:
 * Edward Huggins Johnstone, 91, Brazilian-born American judge, member of the US District Court for Western Kentucky (since 1977).
 * Nilton Pacheco, 92, Olympic basketball player (1948).

July

 * July 7: MC Daleste, 20, rapper, shot.
 * July 8: Claudiney Ramos, 33, Brazilian-born Equatorial Guinean footballer, malaria.
 * July 13: Bertha Becker, 82, geographer.
 * July 23:
 * Dominguinhos, 72, composer and singer, infection and cardiac complications.
 * Djalma Santos, 84, footballer, two-time World Cup winner (1958, 1962), complications from pneumonia.

August

 * August 2: Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida, 97, geologist.
 * August 5: Jaime Luiz Coelho, 97, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop and Archbishop of Maringá (1956–1997).
 * August 10: Joaquim Rufino do Rêgo, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Quixadá (1971–1986) and Parnaíba (1986–2001).
 * August 13: Rui Moreira Lima, 94, military fighter pilot.
 * August 24: Newton de Sordi, 82, World Cup champion footballer (1958), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * August 25: Gylmar dos Santos Neves, 83, World Cup champion footballer (1958, 1962), complications from a heart attack.

September

 * September 1: Joaquim Justino Carreira, 63, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guarulhos (since 2011).
 * September 9: Champignon, 35, musician (Charlie Brown Jr., Revolucionnários, A Banca), suicide.
 * September 13: Luiz Gushiken, 63, politician and union leader, member of the Chamber of Deputies (1987–1999); Minister of Communications (2003–2005), cancer.
 * September 27: Oscar Castro-Neves, 73, bossa nova musician.

October

 * October 8: José Faria, 80, football coach

November

 * November 6: Jorge Dória, 92, actor and humorist, cardiorespiratory failure.

December

 * December 2: Marcelo Déda, 53, politician, Governor of Sergipe (since 2007)
 * December 20: Reginaldo Rossi, 69, singer-songwriter, lung cancer.