title: 1999 in Brazil
text: # 1999 in Brazil
  
  Events in the year 1999 in Brazil.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Federal government
  
  * President: Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  * Vice President: Marco Maciel
  
  ### Governors
  
  * Acre:
     * Orleir Messias Cameli (until 1 January)
     * Jorge Viana (from 1 January)
  * Alagoas:
     * Manoel Gomes de Barros (Mano) (until 1 January)
     * Ronaldo Lessa (from 1 January)
  * Amapa: João Capiberibe
  * Amazonas: Amazonino Mendes
  * Bahia:
     * Paulo Souto (until 1 January)
     * César Borges (from 1 January)
  * Ceará: Tasso Jereissati
  * Espírito Santo:
     * Vitor Buaiz (until 1 January)
     * José Ignácio Ferreira (from 1 January)
  * Goiás:
     * Helenês Cândido (until 1 January)
     * Marconi Perillo (from 1 January)
  * Maranhão: Roseana Sarney
  * Mato Grosso: Dante de Oliveira
  * Mato Grosso do Sul: José Orcírio Miranda dos Santos (from 1 January)
  * Minas Gerais:
     * Eduardo Brandão Azeredo (until 1 January)
     * Itamar Franco (from 1 January)
  * Pará: Almir Gabriel
  * Paraíba: José Maranhão
  * Paraná: Jaime Lerner
  * Pernambuco:
     * Miguel Arraes (until 1 January)
     * Jarbas Vasconcelos (from 1 January)
  * Piauí: Mão Santa
  * Rio de Janeiro:
     * Marcello Alencar (until 1 January)
     * Benedita da Silva (from 1 January)
  * Rio Grande do Norte: Garibaldi Alves Filho
  * Rio Grande do Sul:
     * Antônio Britto (until 1 January)
     * Olívio Dutra (from 1 January)
  * Rondônia: José de Abreu Bianco
  * Roraima: Neudo Ribeiro Campos
  * Santa Catarina:
     * Paulo Afonso Vieira (until 1 January)
     * Esperidião Amin (from 1 January)
  * São Paulo: Mário Covas
  * Sergipe: Albano Franco
  * Tocantins: José Wilson Siqueira Campos (from 1 January)
  
  ### Vice governors
  
  * Acre:
     * Labib Murad (until 1 January)
     * Edison Simão Cadaxo (from 1 January)
  * Alagoas: Geraldo Costa Sampaio (from 1 January)
  * Amapá:
     * Antônio Hildegardo Gomes de Alencar (until 1 January)
     * Maria Dalva de Souza Figueiredo (from 1 January)
  * Amazonas: Samuel Assayag Hanan (from 1 January)
  * Bahia:
     * César Borges (until 1 January)
     * Otto Alencar (from 1 January)
  * Ceará:
     * Moroni Bing Torgan (until 1 January)
     * Benedito Clayton Veras Alcântara (from 1 January)
  * Espírito Santo
     * José Renato Casagrande (until 1 January)
     * Celso José Vasconcelos (from 1 January)
  * Goiás: Alcides Rodrigues Filho (from 1 January)
  * Maranhão: José Reinaldo Carneiro Tavares
  * Mato Grosso:
     * José Márcio Panoff de Lacerda (until 1 January)
     * José Rogério Sales (from 1 January)
  * Mato Grosso do Sul:
     * Vacant (until 1 January)
     * Moacir Kohl (from 1 January)
  * Minas Gerais:
     * Walfrido Silvino dos Mares Guia Neto (until 1 January)
     * Newton Cardoso (from 1 January)
  * Pará:
     * Hélio Mota Gueiros Júnior (until 1 January)
     * Hildegardo de Figueiredo Nunes (from 1 January)
  * Paraíba: Antônio Roberto de Sousa Paulino
  * Paraná: Emília de Sales Belinati
  * Pernambuco:
     * Jorge José Gomes (until 1 January)
     * José Mendonça Bezerra Filho (from 1 January)
  * Piauí:
     * Osmar Antônio de Araújo (until 1 January)
     * Osmar Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
  * Rio de Janeiro:
     * Luiz Paulo Correa da Rocha (until 1 January)
     * Benedita da Silva (from 1 January)
  * Rio Grande do Norte: Fernando Freire
  * Rio Grande do Sul:
     * Vicente Joaquim Bogo (until 1 January)
     * Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto (from 1 January)
  * Rondônia:
     * Aparício Carvalho de Moraes (until 1 January)
     * Miguel de Souza (from 1 January)
  * Roraima:
     * Airton Antonio Soligo (until 1 January)
     * Francisco Flamarion Portela (from 1 January)
  * Santa Catarina:
     * José Augusto Hülse (until 1 January)
     * Paulo Roberto Bauer (from 1 January)
  * São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
  * Sergipe:
     * José Carlos Machado (until 1 January)
     * Benedito de Figueiredo (from 1 January)
  * Tocantins:
     * Raimundo Nonato Pires dos Santos (until 1 January)
     * João Lisboa da Cruz (from 1 January)
  
  ## Events
  
  ### January
  
  * January 1: Fernando Henrique Cardoso begins his second term as president of Brazil.
  * January 24: Central Station by Walter Salles, wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
  
  ### February
  
  * February 1: Antônio Carlos Magalhães (PFL/BA) and Michel Temer (PMDB/SP) are re-elected, respectively, as presidents of the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
  
  ### March
  
  * March 11: A blackout affects the Federal District, as well as ten states in the South, Southeast, and Central-West regions.
  * March 21: After 94 days, the kidnapping of Wellington Camargo (brother of the country duo Zezé di Camargo & Luciano) ends. Camargo was found in a bush on the side of a road in Guapó and the kidnappers were arrested.
  * March 22: The newspaper Agora São Paulo is launched to replace Folha da Tarde.
  
  ### May
  
  * May 10th: The television network Rede Manchete ceases broadcasting, due to a growing decrease in audience, excessive interest on the station's debt and that of the Bloch Group; management failures and salary arrears since the previous year. The network later becomes RedeTV!.
  
  ### June
  
  * June 6: In São José dos Campos, 345 prisoners escape from Putim prison through the front gate.
  
  ### July
  
  * July 18: Brazil defeats Uruguay 3-0, earning their sixth Copa América championship.
  * July 26 - Truckers go on a national strike for four days in a row. Drivers claimed toll tariff reduction, tax exemption and retirement regulation.
  
  ### September
  
  * September 29: Francisco de Assis Pereira, "The Park Maniac", is sentenced to 121 years in prison for the death of ten women in the State Park, in São Paulo.
  
  ### November
  
  * November 3: Mateus da Costa Meira, a 24-year old medical student, kills 3 people in a theater with a submachine gun.
  
  ### December
  
  * December 11: Unsuccessful launch of VLS-1 V02 occurs.
  
  ## Births
  
  ### January
  
  * 14 January: Emerson Royal, footballer
  
  ### March
  
  * 27 May: Matheus Cunha, footballer
  
  ### August
  
  * 13 August: Giulia Be, singer
  * 15 August: Paola Reis, BMX rider
  
  ### October
  
  * 8 October: Camila Rossi, rhythmic gymnast
  
  ### December
  
  * 28 December: Ary Borges, footballer
  
  ## Deaths
  
  ### March
  
  * 7 March: Antônio Houaiss, writer and lexicographer (born 1915)
  * 12 March: Bidu Sayão, opera singer (born 1902)
  * 24 March: Ladjane Bandeira, journalist and artist (born 1927)
  
  ### April
  
  * 1 April: Marcos Rey, writer (born 1925)
  
  ### May
  
  * 18 May: Dias Gomes, dramatist (born 1922)
  * 22 May: Milton Banana, bossa nova and jazz drummer (born 1935)
  * 29 May: João Carlos de Oliveira, athlete (born 1954)
  
  ### June
  
  * 12 June: Carlos Kroeber, actor (born 1934)
  * 19 June: Heloísa Helena, actress (born 1917)
  
  ### July
  
  * 16 July: Franco Montoro, politician (born 1916)
  
  ### August
  
  * 27 August: Hélder Câmara, Catholic archbishop (born 1909)
  
  ### October
  
  * 8 October:
     * Manfredo Fest, bossa nova and jazz pianist (born 1936)
     * Zezé Macedo, comedian and actress (born 1916)
  * 30 October: Nise da Silveira, psychiatrist and student of Carl Jung (born 1905)
  
  ### November
  
  * 19 November: Plínio Marcos, writer and actor (born 1935)
  * 22 November: Flávio Costa, football player and coach (born 1906)
  
  ### December
  
  * 3 December: Edmond Safra, Lebanese-born banker (born 1932)
  * 8 December: Toninho, footballer (born 1948)
  * 24 December: João Figueiredo, 30th President of Brazil (born 1918)
  * 29 December: José Cláudio dos Reis, sports administrator (born 1939)
  