2014 in Brazil
Events in the year 2014 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Dilma Rousseff
- Vice President: Michel Temer
Governors
- Acre:
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- Amapá:
- Amazonas:
- Bahia:
- Ceará:
- EspÃrito Santo:
- :pt:Lista de governadores de Goiás|Goiás:
- Maranhão:
- Mato Grosso:
- Mato Grosso do Sul:
- Minas Gerais:
- :pt:Lista de governadores de Pará|Pará:
- :pt:Lista de governadores de ParaÃba|ParaÃba:
- Paraná:
- :pt:Lista de governadores de Pernambuco|Pernambuco:
- :pt:Lista de governadores de PiauÃ|PiauÃ:
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- Rondônia:
- Roraima:
- :pt:Lista de governadores de Santa Catarina|Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- :pt:Lista de governadores de Sergipe|Sergipe:
- Tocantins:
Vice governors
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Acre|Acre:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Alagoas|Alagoas:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Amapá|Amapá:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Amazonas|Amazonas:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores da Bahia|Bahia:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Ceará|Ceará:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do EspÃrito Santo|EspÃrito Santo:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Goiás|Goiás:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Maranhão|Maranhão:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Mato Grosso|Mato Grosso:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Mato Grosso do Sul|Mato Grosso do Sul:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Minas Gerais|Minas Gerais:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Pará|Pará:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores da ParaÃba|ParaÃba:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Paraná|Paraná:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Pernambuco|Pernambuco:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do PiauÃ|Piaui:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Rio Grande do Norte|Rio Grande do Norte:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Rio Grande do Sul|Rio Grande do Sul:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Rondônia|Rondônia:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Roraima|Roraima:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Santa Catarina|Santa Catarina:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de São Paulo|São Paulo:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Sergipe|Sergipe:
- :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Tocantins|Tocantins:
Events
- 2014 protests in Brazil
- August 13 - Governor Eduardo Campos, a candidate in the upcoming Brazilian presidential election, dies in a plane crash in Santos, São Paulo, together with six other people on board the aircraft. It also sparks a large fire.
- July - 6th BRICS summit
- July 3 - Belo Horizonte overpass collapse
- August 13 - 2014 Cessna Citation 560 XLS+ crash
- September 14 - Eike Batista charged with insider trading and manipulating the stock price of OGX.
- September 27 - Miss Brasil 2014
- October 5 & 26 - Brazilian general election, 2014
- October 18 - insider trading trial of Eike Batista begins.
- Brazilian NGO Imazon said that deforestation in the Amazon had surged 190% over the same month in 2013, a year which itself showed a 29% increase in deforestation.
- December 10 – 26 year old Sailson José das Graças is arrested for the serial murder as many as 41 people in a string of suspected racist hate crimes.
Arts and culture
Alberto da Costa e Silva won the Camões Prize.
Sports
Brazil hosted the 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2014 Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship, the 2014 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship and the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.In international multi-sport events, Brazil participated in the Winter Olympics, in the Winter Paralympics and also in the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.
For events in football, see 2014 in Brazilian football.
For motorsport, see 2014 Campeonato Brasileiro de Turismo season, 2014 Desafio Internacional das Estrelas, 2014 Fórmula 3 Brasil season, 2014 Formula 3 Brazil Open, 2014 Fórmula Truck season, 2014 Brasileiro de Marcas season and 2014 Stock Car Brasil season.
Other sport events include the 2014 Brasil Open and the.
Deaths
- January 5 – Nelson Ned, 66, Brazilian singer, pneumonia.
- January 10 – Marly Marley, 75, Brazilian vedette and actress, pancreatic cancer.
- February 2 – Eduardo Coutinho, 80, Brazilian film director, stabbed.
- February 8 – Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, 25, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.
- February 22 – ArduÃno Colassanti, 78, Italian-born Brazilian actor.
- March 6 – Sérgio Guerra, 66, Brazilian economist and politician, member of the Federal Senate.
- March 13 – Paulo Goulart, 81, Brazilian actor, cancer.
- March 20 – Hilderaldo Bellini, 83, Brazilian footballer, two-time World Cup winner, complications from a heart attack.
- March 24 – Paulo Schroeber, 40, Brazilian guitarist, heart failure.
- April 3 – Pedro Fré, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Corumbá and Barretos.
- April 5 – José Wilker, 66, Brazilian actor and director, heart attack.
- April 12 – MaurÃcio Alves Peruchi, 24, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.
- April 17 – Henry Maksoud, 85, Brazilian businessman, cardiac arrest.
- April 19 – Luciano do Valle, 66, Brazilian sports commentator.
- April 25 – Paulo Malhães, 76-77, Brazilian soldier.
- April 26 – José Moreira Bastos Neto, 61, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Três Lagoas, heart attack.
- April 26 – AloÃsio Roque Oppermann, 77, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Uberaba.
- May 2 – Tomás Balduino, 91, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Goiás.
- May 8 – Homero Leite Meira, 82, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itabuna and Irecê.
- May 8 – Jair Rodrigues, 75, Brazilian musician and singer, heart attack.
- May 10 – Yeso Amalfi, 88, Brazilian footballer.
- May 11 – Celso Pereira de Almeida, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Nacional and Itumbiara.
- May 13 – Altamiro Rossato, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Marabá, Archbishop of Porto Alegre.
- May 21 – João Filgueiras Lima, 82, Brazilian architect, prostate cancer.
- May 23 – Joel Camargo, 67, Brazilian footballer, renal failure.
- May 25 – Washington César Santos, 54, Brazilian footballer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- May 28 – Ciro de Quadros, 74, Brazilian physician, cancer.
- May 31 – Marinho Chagas, 62, Brazilian footballer, gastrointestinal bleeding.
- June 7 – Fernandão, 36, Brazilian footballer, helicopter crash.
- June 7 – Helcio Milito, 83, Brazilian musician.
- June 10 – Marcello Alencar, 88, Brazilian politician and lawyer, Governor of Rio de Janeiro, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro.
- June 10 – Vital João Geraldo Wilderink, 82, Dutch-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of ItaguaÃ.
- June 14 – Alex Chandre de Oliveira, 36, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
- June 15 – Moise Safra, 79, Syrian-born Brazilian billionaire financier, founder and chairman of Banco Safra, Parkinson's disease.
- June 18 – Márcio Moreira, 67, Brazilian advertising executive.
- June 20 – Oberdan Cattani, 95, Brazilian footballer.
- June 21 – Rose Marie Muraro, 83, Brazilian sociologist.
- June 21 – Irajá Damiani Pinto, 94, Brazilian paleontologist.
- June 26 – Moacyr José Vitti, 73, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Curitiba, heart attack.
- June 27 – Amaro Macedo, 100, Brazilian botanist and plant collector.
- July 6 – Benedito de Assis da Silva, 61, Brazilian footballer, multiple organ failure.
- July 7 – Estanislau Amadeu Kreutz, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santo Ângelo, multiple organ failure.
- July 8 – PlÃnio de Arruda Sampaio, 83, Brazilian jurist and politician, bone cancer.
- July 9 – Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes, 63, Brazilian geologist and mineral dealer.
- July 14 – Vange Leonel, 51, Brazilian singer, writer, feminist and LGBT activist, ovarian cancer.
- July 18 – João Ubaldo Ribeiro, 73, Brazilian writer, pulmonary embolism.
- July 19 – Rubem Alves, 80, Brazilian writer, philosopher and theologian, multiple organ failure due to pneumonia.
- July 19 – Norberto Odebrecht, 93, Brazilian engineer, founder of Odebrecht and the Odebrecht Foundation, cardiac complications.
- July 23 – Ariano Suassuna, 87, Brazilian writer, cardiac arrest as a complication from a stroke.
- July 25 – Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourão, 79, Brazilian astronomer.
- July 26 – Spiridon Mattar, 93, Lebanese-born Brazilian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Nossa Senhora do ParaÃso em São Paulo.
- July 30 – Fausto Fanti, 35, Brazilian humorist and musician, suicide by hanging.
- August 3 – Benedito de Ulhôa Vieira, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Uberaba.
- August 11 – Djalma Cavalcante, 57, Brazilian football player and coach, heart attack.
- August 11 – Armando CÃrio, 98, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cascavel.
- August 13 – Eduardo Campos, 49, Brazilian politician, Minister of Science and Technology, Governor of Pernambuco, 2014 presidential candidate, plane crash.
- August 24 – Antônio ErmÃrio de Moraes, 86, Brazilian businessman, CEO of the Votorantim Group, heart failure.
- September 1 – Sérgio Rodrigues, 86, Brazilian architect and designer.
- September 11 – Jerônimo Garcia de Santana, 79, Brazilian politician, Governor of Rondônia, Mayor of Porto Velho.
- September 13 – Iberê Ferreira, 70, Brazilian politician, Governor of Rio Grande do Norte.
- September 14 – ServÃlio Conti, 97, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Roraima.
- September 30 – Jadir Ambrósio, 91, Brazilian musician and composer.
- October 3 – Lori Sandri, 65, Brazilian football manager, brain tumor.
- October 4 – Hugo Carvana, 77, Brazilian actor and director.
- October 15 – João Corso, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Campos.
- November 1 – Edson Décimo Alves Araújo, 27, Brazilian footballer, shot.
- November 1 – Alberto Johannes Först, 87, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dourados.
- November 11 – Caetano Lima dos Santos, 98, Brazilian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
- November 13 – Manoel de Barros, 97, Brazilian poet.
- November 14 – Adib Jatene, 85, Brazilian cardiologist and politician, Minister of Health, heart attack.
- November 20 – Márcio Thomaz Bastos, 79, Brazilian politician, Minister of Justice, lung failure.
- November 20 – Samuel Klein, 91, Polish-born Brazilian magnate.
- December 3 – Alfredo Ernest Novak, 84, American-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Paranaguá.
- December 9 – José Feghali, 53, Brazilian pianist, suicide by gunshot.
- December 23 – João NÃlson Zunino, 68, Brazilian executive, President of Avaà FC.