1938 in Brazil
# 1938 in Brazil

Events in the year 1938 in Brazil.

## Incumbents

### Federal government

* President: Getúlio Vargas

### Governors

* Alagoas: Osman Laurel
* Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
* Bahia: Antônio Fernandes Dantas then Landulfo Alves
* Ceará: Francisco de Meneses Pimentel
* Espírito Santo: João Punaro Bley
* Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
* Maranhão:
* Mato Grosso: Júlio Strübing Müller
* Minas Gerais: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro
* Pará: José Carneiro da Gama Malcher
* Paraíba: Argemiro de Figueiredo
* Paraná: Manuel Ribas
* Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
* Piauí: Leônidas Melo
* Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão
* Rio Grande do Sul:
   * till 19 January: Manuel de Cerqueira Daltro Filho
   * 19 January-4 March: Joaquim Maurício Cardoso
   * from 4 March: Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias
* Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
* São Paulo:
   * till 25 April: José Joaquim Cardoso de Melo Neto
   * 25 April-27 April: Francisco José da Silva Júnior
   * from 27 April: Ademar de Barros
* Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho

### Vice governors

* Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
* São Paulo: no vice governor

## Events

* 2 January - The governmental radio program Hora do Brasil begins to be broadcast throughout the country.
* 3 January - The presidential election is not held due to Getúlio Vargas' coup d'état.
* May – The Brazilian integralist movement attempt a coup d'état, supported by the Axis powers. The failure of the "Pajama Putsch" leads to the dissolution of the AIB.
* 28 July – Folk hero Lampião and his band are ambushed in one of his hideouts, the Angicos farm, in the state of Sergipe.
* date unknown
   * Michel Bernanos visits Brazil for the first time.
   * Mário de Andrade takes up a post at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

## Arts and culture

### Films

* Alma e Corpo de uma Raça
* Aruanã
* Maridinho de Luxo
* Tererê Não Resolve

## Births

### January

* 16 January: Jô Soares, comedian and talk show host (died 2022)
* 27 January: Raul Gil, television presenter and singer

### April

* 5 April: Marly Marley, actress and vedette (died 2014)

### June

* 6 June: Prince Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne (died 2022)

### July

* 23 July: Menalton Braff, novelist and short story writer
* 25 July: Sérgio Ferro, painter

### August

* 18 August: Orestes Quércia, politician (died 2010)

### November

* 5 November: Enéas Carneiro, politician (died 2007)
* 25 November: Luiz Henrique Rosa, musician and soccer player (died 1985)

## Deaths

* 28 July:
   * Lampião, bandit (born 1897; killed in a police ambush)
   * Maria Bonita, bandit (born 1911; killed along with her boyfriend Lampião)
