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1939 in Brazil
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Year of Constitution: 1937

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.

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).
• 30 April - Axel Schmidt-Preben, Olympic sailor (died 2018 )
• 13 June - Antônio Pitanga, actor
• 16 October - Suely Franco, actress and entertainer

Deaths

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

References

1. Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 By Daryle Williams, p x
2. "GLAUBER ROCHA IS DEAD AT 42; INNOVATIVE BRAZILIAN DIRECTOR (Published 1981)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2022-08-26.
3. "Olympics". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
4. Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 By Daryle Williams, pg 263
5. "Beatification process of Brazilian girl begins", (AP), KHOU, Houston, Texas Archived March 11, 2014, at the Wayback Machine

See also

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

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