2013 in Brazil
# 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: 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.

## Deaths

### 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.
