1939 in Brazil explained

Events in the year 1939 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President

Getúlio Vargas

Governors

• Alagoas: Osman Laurel
  • Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia Bahia: 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: Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias
• Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
• São Paulo: Ademar de Barros
• Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho

Vice governors

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

Events

• 27 June – The municipality of Canoas obtains city status.
• 30 November – Serra dos Órgãos National Park is created
• 5 December – The Imperial Mausoleum is officially inaugurated at the Cathedral of Petrópolis.^[1]

Arts and culture

Films

• El Grito de la juventud (Argentine film directed by Brazilian director Raul Roulien)

Music

• Ary Barroso - "Aquarela do Brasil"

Births

• 2 February - Maximira Figueiredo, actress (died 2018)
• 8 February - Jonas Bloch, actor
• 14 March - Glauber Rocha, film director, actor and writer (died 1981).^[2]
• 30 April - Axel Schmidt-Preben, Olympic sailor^[3] (died 2018)
• 13 June - Antônio Pitanga, actor
• 16 October - Suely Franco, actress and entertainer

Deaths

• 19 April - Lucílio de Albuquerque, painter (born 1887).^[4]
• 16 October - Malvina Tavares, anarchist, poet, and educator (born 1866)
• 25 November - Odette Vidal de Oliveira, candidate for beatification (born 1930).^[5]

See also

• 1939 in Brazilian football
• List of Brazilian films of 1939

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=Cv6dynKbcKAC&dq=%22Georgina+de+Albuquerque&pg=PA263 Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 By Daryle Williams, p x
2. Web site: GLAUBER ROCHA IS DEAD AT 42; INNOVATIVE BRAZILIAN DIRECTOR (Published 1981) . . https://web.archive.org/web/20220826191902/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/23/obituaries/glauber-rocha-is-dead-at-42-innovative-brazilian-director.html . 2022-08-26 . live .
3. Web site: Olympics . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417060420/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pr/axel-preben-schmidt-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . sports-reference. 16 April 2013.
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=Cv6dynKbcKAC&dq=%22Georgina+de+Albuquerque&pg=PA263 Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 By Daryle Williams, pg 263
5. http://www.khou.com/news/world/187479111.html "Beatification process of Brazilian girl begins", (AP), KHOU, Houston, Texas