2013 in Brazil
Events from the year 2013 in Brazil.Incumbents
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 –
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- Amapa –
- Amazonas –
- Bahia –
- Ceará –
- Espírito Santo –
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- Maranhão –
- Mato Grosso –
- Mato Grosso do Sul –
- Minas Gerais –
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- Paraná –
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- Rio Grande do Norte –
- Rio Grande do Sul –
- Rondônia –
- Roraima –
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- São Paulo –
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- Tocantins –
Vice governors
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- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Rondônia|Rondônia –
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Events
- 2013 protests in Brazil
- January 27 - A nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul kills at least 242 people.
- May 7 - removed from office, the presidency of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso, accused of embezzling $4.7 million.
- July 23 – World Youth Day began in Rio de Janeiro.
- November 14 - National Institute for Space Research satellite data revealed a 30% increase of deforestation in the Amazon in 2013.
Deaths
- January 10 – Jorge Selarón, 65, painter and ceramist.
- January 15 – Clayton Silva, 74, actor and comedian, cancer.
- January 18 – Walmor Chagas, 82, actor, apparent suicide by gunshot.
- January 22 – Lídia Mattos, 88, actress, pneumonia.
- January 24 – Zózimo Bulbul, 75, actor and filmmaker, heart attack.
- February 14 – Fernando Lyra, 74, politician, Minister of Justice, cardiopathy.
- March 6 – Chorão, 42, musician, cocaine overdose.
- March 20 – Emílio Santiago, 66, singer, complications from a stroke.
- 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, complications of pneumonia.
- April 30 – Tito Buss, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rio do Sul.
- May 5 – Peu Sousa, 35, guitarist 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 and Feira de Santana.
- June 3 – Eugênio Izecksohn, 81, herpetologist, 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 and Sete Lagoas.
- *Teodoro Matos Santana, 66, footballer, 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.
- *Nilton Pacheco, 92, Olympic basketball player.
- 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, complications from pneumonia.
- August 2 – Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida, 97, geologist.
- August 5 – Jaime Luiz Coelho, 97, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop and Archbishop of Maringá.
- August 10 – Joaquim Rufino do Rêgo, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Quixadá and Parnaíba.
- August 13 – Rui Moreira Lima, 94, military fighter pilot.
- August 24 – Newton de Sordi, 82, World Cup champion footballer, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
- August 25 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, 83, World Cup champion footballer, complications from a heart attack.
- September 1 – Joaquim Justino Carreira, 63, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guarulhos.
- September 9 – Champignon, 35, musician, suicide by firearm.
- September 13 – Luiz Gushiken, 63, politician and union leader, member of the Chamber of Deputies ; Minister of Communications, cancer.
- September 27 – Oscar Castro-Neves, 73, bossa nova musician.