title: 2013 in Brazil
text: # 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.
  