2019 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Jair Bolsonaro
• Vice President: Hamilton Mourão

  Governors

• Acre:
• :pt:Lista_de_governadores_de_Alagoas|Alagoas:
• Amapa:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• Espírito 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_da_Paraíba|Paraíba:
• Paraná:
• :pt:Lista_de_governadores_de_Pernambuco|Pernambuco:
• :pt:Lista_de_governadores_do_Piauí|Piauí:
• 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_Espírito_Santo|Espírito 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_Paraíba|Paraíba:
• :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Paraná|Paraná:
• :pt:Lista_de_vice-governadores_de_Pernambuco|Pernambuco:
• :pt:Lista_de_vice-governadores_do_Piauí|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

January

• January 1: Inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro as the 38th President of Brazil.
• January 8: Brazil formally withdraws from the UN's Global Compact for Migration pact, however, Brazil's Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo says that the country will continue to accept Venezuelan refugees.
• January 25: The Brumadinho dam disaster, when a mining dam owned by Vale, collapses in Minas Gerais, leaving 203 dead and one hundred and five individuals missing.

  February

• February 1: Rodrigo Maia is reelected President of Chamber of Deputies.
• February 2: Davi Alcolumbre is elected President of Senate.
• February 6: Heavy rain hits Rio de Janeiro, leaving six people dead and two missing.
• February 8: A fire on Flamengo youth academy training camp leaves ten people dead and three injured in Rio de Janeiro
• February 11: A helicopter carrying journalist and news anchor Ricardo Boechat crashes in São Paulo, killing both Boechat and the pilot.
• February 17: Four children die after a landslide in Mauá, São Paulo.

  March

• March 13:
• * Two former military police officers are arrested in Brazil for the murders of Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes. One of the suspects was arrested at home, in a Rio de Janeiro gated community where President Jair Bolsonaro also resides. Franco was born in a Rio favela and became a politician and activist against violence in the slums, which are often controlled by paramilitary groups. Her assassination prompted widespread protests.
• * Two men, of 17 and 25 years old, attack a school in the Brazilian city of Suzano, São Paulo, with a revolver and a knife, killing eight and wounding 23 people, among students and staff. The two shooters committed suicide after the attack. Police have found a crossbow, Molotov cocktails and a "suitcase with wires" at the scene.
• March 21: Former President Michel Temer is arrested as part of an investigation into corruption. Former Governor of Rio de Janeiro Moreira Franco is also arrested.

  April

May

June

• June 20: 3 million evangelicals march in São Paulo For the "March For Jesus".

  July

• July 29: At least 52 people are killed, including sixteen who were beheaded, during a prison riot in Pará, which saw rival gangs battle for five hours.

  August

September

• The Northeast Brazil oil spill, which worsens in October, begins.

  October

November

• November 9: Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva walks out of prison on Friday after his release was ordered by a judge.
• November 12: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro forms his new party Alliance for Brazil.

  December

• December 26: a group called the "Popular Nationalist Insurgency Command of the Large Brazilian Integralist Family" claimed responsibility for a firebombing of the headquarters of comedy group Porta dos Fundos in Rio de Janeiro.

  Arts and culture

• 2018–19 Brazil network television schedule
• List of Brazilian films of 2019

  Sports

• 2019 in Brazilian football

  Births

Deaths

January

• January 8 - José Belvino do Nascimento, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itumbiara  and Divinópolis .
• January 9 - Óscar González-Quevedo, 88, Spanish-born Brazilian Jesuit priest and parapsychologist, heart disease.
• January 15 - Edyr de Castro, 72, Brazilian actress, and singer, multiple organ failure.
• January 28 - Antônio Petrus Kalil, 93, Brazilian criminal, pneumonia.

  February

• February 6 - Jairo do Nascimento, 72, Brazilian footballer, kidney cancer.
• February 10 - Daniel Silva dos Santos, 36, Brazilian footballer, cancer.
• February 11 - Ricardo Boechat, 66, Argentine-born Brazilian journalist, helicopter crash.
• February 13 - Bibi Ferreira, 96, Brazilian actress and singer.
• February 16 - Silvestre Luís Scandián, 87, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Araçuaí  and Archbishop of Vitória .
• February 19 - João Paulo dos Reis Veloso, 87, Brazilian economist, Minister of Planning, president of the Institute of Applied Economic Research.
• February 23 - Douglas, 51, Brazilian-born Swedish scarlet macaw actor.
• February 25
• * Waldo Machado, 84, Brazilian footballer.
• * Paulo Nogueira Neto, 96, Brazilian environmentalist, Secretary of the Environment.
• * Nelson Zeglio, 92, Brazilian footballer.

  March

• March 11 - Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, 75, Brazilian football player and manager, world champion, heart attack.
• March 12 - Eurico Miranda, 74, Brazilian football chairman and politician, Deputy .
• March 17 – João Carlos Marinho, 83, writer.
• March 26 - Rafael Henzel, 45, Brazilian sports broadcaster, survivor of LaMia Flight 2933crash, heart attack.

  April

• April 7 - Jean Paul Jacob, 81–82, Brazilian-American computer scientist.
• April 15 - Marcelo Dascal, 78, Brazilian-born Israeli philosopher and linguist.
• April 19 – MC Sapão, 40, singer, pneumonia.
• April 20 - Valdiram, 36, Brazilian footballer, beaten.
• April 21 –, 81, professor, translator and essayist, Prêmio Jabuti laureate, cancer.
• April 25 - Dirceu Krüger, 74, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
• April 26 - Zé do Carmo, 85, Brazilian ceramist, heart attack.
• April 28
• * Caroline Bittencourt, 37, Brazilian model, drowned.
• * Maurício Peixoto, 98, Brazilian engineer and mathematician.
• April 29 - José Rodrigues Neto, 69, Brazilian footballer, thrombosis.
• April 30 - Beth Carvalho, 72, Brazilian samba singer.

  May

• May 11 -, 92, Brazilian actor and comedian, respiratory failure.
• May 14 - Urbano José Allgayer, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Passo Fundo .
• May 18 - Ney da Matta, 52, Brazilian football manager, pancreatitis.
• May 25 - Lady Francisco, 84, Brazilian actress.
• May 27 - Gabriel Diniz, 28, Brazilian singer and composer, plane crash.

  June

• June 2 - Gabi Costa, 33, Brazilian actress, cardiorespiratory arrest.
• *, 34, Brazilian film director and actress, brain tumor.
• * Luisinho Lemos, 67, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
• June 3
• *, 86, Brazilian actress.
• *, 86, Brazilian architect.
• June 7
• *, 85, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter, multiple organ failure.
• *, 87, Brazilian film director, actor and screenwriter.
• June 8 - Andre Matos, 47, Brazilian singer, heart attack.
• June 9 - Rafael Miguel, 22, Brazilian actor, shot.
• June 14 -  76, Brazilian journalist, heart attack.
• June 17 - Moacyr Grechi, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Porto Velho.
• June 19 -, 74, Brazilian film critic.
• June 22
• * Thalles, 24, Brazilian football player, traffic collision.
• *, 61, Brazilian drummer, pulmonary fibrosis.
• June 28 - Mário Jorge da Fonseca Hermes, 92, Brazilian basketball player.
• June 29 - Michael Uchendu, 21, Brazilian basketball player, jet ski accident

  July

• July 6
• * João Gilberto, 88, Brazilian singer-songwriter.
• *, 83, Brazilian journalist, lawyer and sociologist.
• July 7 –, 93, Brazilian poet, complications from a fall.
• July 8 – Tunica Teixeira, 69, Brazilian sound designer and musical producer, cancer.
• July 10 – Paulo Henrique Amorim, 77, Brazilian journalist.
• July 28 – Ruth de Souza, 98, Brazilian actress.

  August

• August 2 - Gildo Cunha do Nascimento, 79, Brazilian footballer.
• August 9 - Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, 81, Brazilian footballer.
• August 12 - João Carlos Barroso, 69, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer.
• August 23 - Kito Junqueira, 71, Brazilian actor and politician.
• August 25 - Fernanda Young, 49, Brazilian novelist, screenwriter and actress, cardiac arrest.
• August 26 - Walmir Alberto Valle, 81, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zé Doca  and Joaçaba , cancer.

  September

• September 1 - Alberto Goldman, 81, Brazilian politician, MP , Minister of Transport  and Governor of São Paulo , cancer.
• September 4 -, 89, Brazilian MPB and samba singer, pneumonia.
• September 7 -, 88, Brazilian actor.
• September 15 - Roberto Leal, 67, Portuguese-Brazilian singer, skin cancer.
• September 28 - Franco Cuter, 79, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grajaú.

  October

• October 8 - Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Belo Horizonte, complications from pneumonia.
• October 13 - Elias James Manning, 81, American-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Valença .
• October 16 –, 93, banker and businessman, President of Banco Bradesco.
• October 24 - Walter Franco, 74, Brazilian singer and composer, stroke.
• October 25 - Mário Sabino, 47, Brazilian Olympic judoka, shot.
• October 30 - Ercílio Turco, 81, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Limeira  and Osasco , cancer.

  November

• November 1 - Ary Kara, 77, Brazilian politician, Deputy , cancer.
• November 3 - Girônimo Zanandréa, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Coadjutor Bishop and Bishop of Erexim.
• November 17 - Tuka Rocha, 36, Brazilian race car driver, plane crash.
• November 18 -, 65, Brazilian singer, lung cancer.
• November 20 - Fábio Barreto, 62, Brazilian film director, complications from a traffic collision.
• November 22 - Gugu Liberato, 60, Brazilian television presenter, fall.
• November 22 - Henry Sobel, 75, Portuguese-born Brazilian-American reform rabbi, cancer.