2014 in Brazil

Events in the year 2014 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Dilma Rousseff
• Vice President: Michel Temer

Governors

• Acre:
• Alagoas:
• Amapá:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• Espírito Santo:
• Goiás:
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso:
• Mato Grosso do Sul:
• Minas Gerais:
• Pará:
• Paraíba:
• Paraná:
• Pernambuco:
• Piauí:
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• Rondônia:
• Roraima:
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:
• Tocantins:

Vice governors

• Acre:
• Alagoas:
• Amapá:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• Espírito Santo:
• Goiás:
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso:
• Mato Grosso do Sul:
• Minas Gerais:
• Pará:
• Paraíba:
• Paraná:
• Pernambuco:
• Piaui:
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• Rondônia:
• Roraima:
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:
• Tocantins:

Events

• 2014 protests in Brazil
• August 13 - Governor Eduardo Campos, a candidate in the upcoming Brazilian presidential election, dies in a plane crash in Santos, São Paulo, together with six other people on board the aircraft. It also sparks a large fire.[1]
• July - 6th BRICS summit
• July 3 - Belo Horizonte overpass collapse
• August 13 - 2014 Cessna Citation 560 XLS+ crash
• September 14 - Eike Batista charged with insider trading and manipulating the stock price of OGX.[2]
• September 27 - Miss Brasil 2014
• October 5 & 26 - Brazilian general election, 2014[3]
• October 18 - insider trading trial of Eike Batista begins.[4]
• Brazilian NGO Imazon said that deforestation in the Amazon had surged 190% over the same month in 2013, a year which itself showed a 29% increase in deforestation.[5]
• December 10 – 26 year old Sailson José das Graças is arrested for the serial murder as many as 41 people in a string of suspected racist hate crimes.

Arts and culture

For Brazilian films first released in 2014, see the list of Brazilian films of 2014. In music, see the list of number-one pop hits of 2014 (Brazil) and the list of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2014 (Brazil).

Alberto da Costa e Silva won the Camões Prize.

Sports

Brazil hosted the 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2014 Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship, the 2014 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship and the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.

In international multi-sport events, Brazil participated in the Winter Olympics, in the Winter Paralympics and also in the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

For events in football (soccer), see 2014 in Brazilian football.

For motorsport, see 2014 Campeonato Brasileiro de Turismo season, 2014 Desafio Internacional das Estrelas, 2014 Fórmula 3 Brasil season, 2014 Formula 3 Brazil Open, 2014 Fórmula Truck season, 2014 Brasileiro de Marcas season and 2014 Stock Car Brasil season.

Other sport events include the 2014 Brasil Open and the UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Mousasi.

Deaths

• January 5 – Nelson Ned, 66, Brazilian singer, pneumonia.[6]
• January 10 – Marly Marley, 75, Brazilian vedette and actress, pancreatic cancer.[7]
• February 2 – Eduardo Coutinho, 80, Brazilian film director, stabbed.[8]
• February 8 – Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, 25, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.[9]
• February 22 – Arduíno Colassanti, 78, Italian-born Brazilian actor.[10]
• March 6 – Sérgio Guerra, 66, Brazilian economist and politician, member of the Federal Senate (2003–2011).[11]
• March 13 – Paulo Goulart, 81, Brazilian actor, cancer.[12]
• March 20 – Hilderaldo Bellini, 83, Brazilian footballer, two-time World Cup winner (1958, 1962), complications from a heart attack.[13]
• March 24 – Paulo Schroeber, 40, Brazilian guitarist (Almah), heart failure.[14]
• April 3 – Pedro Fré, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Corumbá (1985–1989) and Barretos (1989–2000).[15]
• April 5 – José Wilker, 66, Brazilian actor (Medicine Man) and director, heart attack.[16]
• April 12 – Maurício Alves Peruchi, 24, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.[17]
• April 17 – Henry Maksoud, 85, Brazilian businessman, cardiac arrest.[18]
• April 19 – Luciano do Valle, 66, Brazilian sports commentator.[19]
• April 25 – Paulo Malhães, 76-77, Brazilian soldier.[20]
• April 26 – José Moreira Bastos Neto, 61, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Três Lagoas (since 2009), heart attack.[21]
• April 26 – Aloísio Roque Oppermann, 77, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Uberaba (1996–2012).[22] (body discovered on this date)
• May 2 – Tomás Balduino, 91, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Goiás (1967–1998).[23]
• May 8 – Homero Leite Meira, 82, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itabuna (1978–1980) and Irecê (1980–1983).[24]
• May 8 – Jair Rodrigues, 75, Brazilian musician and singer, heart attack.[25]
• May 10 – Yeso Amalfi, 88, Brazilian footballer (Olympique de Marseille).[26]
• May 11 – Celso Pereira de Almeida, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Nacional (1976–1995) and Itumbiara (1995–1998).[27]
• May 13 – Altamiro Rossato, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Marabá (1985–1989), Archbishop of Porto Alegre (1991–2001).[28]
• May 21 – João Filgueiras Lima, 82, Brazilian architect, prostate cancer.[29]
• May 23 – Joel Camargo, 67, Brazilian footballer (Santos), renal failure.[30]
• May 25 – Washington César Santos, 54, Brazilian footballer (national team), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[31]
• May 28 – Ciro de Quadros, 74, Brazilian physician, cancer.[32]
• May 31 – Marinho Chagas, 62, Brazilian footballer (Botafogo, national team), gastrointestinal bleeding.[33]
• June 7 – Fernandão, 36, Brazilian footballer (Sport Club Internacional, national team), helicopter crash.[34]
• June 7 – Helcio Milito, 83, Brazilian musician.[35]
• June 10 – Marcello Alencar, 88, Brazilian politician and lawyer, Governor of Rio de Janeiro (1995–1999), Mayor of Rio de Janeiro (1983–1986, 1989–1993).[36]
• June 10 – Vital João Geraldo Wilderink, 82, Dutch-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itaguaí (1980–1998).[37]
• June 14 – Alex Chandre de Oliveira, 36, Brazilian footballer (Hangzhou Greentown), heart attack.[38]
• June 15 – Moise Safra, 79, Syrian-born Brazilian billionaire financier, founder and chairman of Banco Safra, Parkinson's disease.[39]
• June 18 – Márcio Moreira, 67, Brazilian advertising executive.[40]
• June 20 – Oberdan Cattani, 95, Brazilian footballer (Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras).[41]
• June 21 – Rose Marie Muraro, 83, Brazilian sociologist.[42]
• June 21 – Irajá Damiani Pinto, 94, Brazilian paleontologist.[43]
• June 26 – Moacyr José Vitti, 73, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Curitiba (since 2004), heart attack.[44]
• June 27 – Amaro Macedo, 100, Brazilian botanist and plant collector.[45]
• July 6 – Benedito de Assis da Silva, 61, Brazilian footballer (Fluminense), multiple organ failure.[46]
• July 7 – Estanislau Amadeu Kreutz, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santo Ângelo (1973–2004), multiple organ failure.[47]
• July 8 – Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, 83, Brazilian jurist and politician, bone cancer.[48]
• July 9 – Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes, 63, Brazilian geologist and mineral dealer.[49]
• July 14 – Vange Leonel, 51, Brazilian singer, writer, feminist and LGBT activist, ovarian cancer.[50]
• July 18 – João Ubaldo Ribeiro, 73, Brazilian writer, pulmonary embolism.[51]
• July 19 – Rubem Alves, 80, Brazilian writer, philosopher and theologian, multiple organ failure due to pneumonia.[52]
• July 19 – Norberto Odebrecht, 93, Brazilian engineer, founder of Odebrecht and the Odebrecht Foundation, cardiac complications.[53]
• July 23 – Ariano Suassuna, 87, Brazilian writer, cardiac arrest as a complication from a stroke.[54]
• July 25 – Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourão, 79, Brazilian astronomer.[55]
• July 26 – Spiridon Mattar, 93, Lebanese-born Brazilian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo (1978–1990).[56]
• July 30 – Fausto Fanti, 35, Brazilian humorist (Hermes & Renato) and musician (Massacration), suicide by hanging.[57]
• August 3 – Benedito de Ulhôa Vieira, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Uberaba (1978–1996).[58]
• August 11 – Djalma Cavalcante, 57, Brazilian football player and coach, heart attack.[59]
• August 11 – Armando Círio, 98, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cascavel (1978–1995).[60]
• August 13 – Eduardo Campos, 49, Brazilian politician, Minister of Science and Technology (2004–2005), Governor of Pernambuco (2007–2014), 2014 presidential candidate, plane crash.[61]
• August 24 – Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, 86, Brazilian businessman, CEO of the Votorantim Group, heart failure.[62]
• September 1 – Sérgio Rodrigues, 86, Brazilian architect and designer.[63]
• September 11 – Jerônimo Garcia de Santana, 79, Brazilian politician, Governor of Rondônia (1987–1991), Mayor of Porto Velho (1986).[64]
• September 13 – Iberê Ferreira, 70, Brazilian politician, Governor of Rio Grande do Norte (2010–2011).[65]
• September 14 – Servílio Conti, 97, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Roraima (1965–1975).[66]
• September 30 – Jadir Ambrósio, 91, Brazilian musician and composer.[67]
• October 3 – Lori Sandri, 65, Brazilian football manager, brain tumor.[68]
• October 4 – Hugo Carvana, 77, Brazilian actor (Entranced Earth, Antonio das Mortes) and director (Casa da Mãe Joana).[69]
• October 15 – João Corso, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Campos (1990–1995).[70]
• November 1 – Edson Décimo Alves Araújo, 27, Brazilian footballer (Atlético-PR), shot.[71]
• November 1 – Alberto Johannes Först, 87, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dourados (1990–2001).[72]
• November 11 – Caetano Lima dos Santos, 98, Brazilian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.[73]
• November 13 – Manoel de Barros, 97, Brazilian poet.[74]
• November 14 – Adib Jatene, 85, Brazilian cardiologist and politician, Minister of Health (1992, 1995–1996), heart attack.[75]
• November 20 – Márcio Thomaz Bastos, 79, Brazilian politician, Minister of Justice (2003–2007), lung failure.[76]
• November 20 – Samuel Klein, 91, Polish-born Brazilian magnate (Casas Bahia).[77]
• December 3 – Alfredo Ernest Novak, 84, American-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Paranaguá (1989–2006).[78]
• December 9 – José Feghali, 53, Brazilian pianist, suicide by gunshot.[79]
• December 23 – João Nílson Zunino, 68, Brazilian executive, President of Avaí FC (2002–2013).[80]

See also

• 2014 in Brazilian football

References

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3. Ronak Gopaldas (April 15, 2014). "SA, Brazil and India face key elections to restart growth". iol.co.za/business. Independent Newspapers (Pty) Limited. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
4. Dan Horch (November 18, 2014). "Eike Batista's Insider Trading Case in Brazil to Test a Much-Criticized Justice System". DealBook. New York Times. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
5. Jonathan Watts (October 19, 2014). "Amazon deforestation picking up pace, satellite data reveals: Data indicates 190% rise in land clearance in August and September compared with same period last year". The Guardian.
6. Nelson Ned dead: Brazilian singer dies of pneumonia at age 66
7. Morre a atriz Marly Marley, ex-jurada do "Programa Raul Gil" (in Portuguese)
8. Brazil film director Eduardo Coutinho stabbed to death
9. Shakhtar Donetsk: Brazilian striker Maicon dies in car crash
10. Morre o ator e surfista Arduíno Colassanti Archived 2014-03-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
11. Morre o deputado federal Sérgio Guerra, ex-presidente do PSDB Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
12. Morre aos 81 anos o ator Paulo Goulart Archived 2014-03-13 at the Wayback Machine
13. Bellini, captain of '58 WCup champ Brazil, dies
14. Paulo Schroeber, Ex-Almah Guitarist, Dies Of Heart Failure
15. Bishop Pedro Fré
16. José Wilker Dies: Brazilian Globo Telenovela Actor Dead At 66
17. A player from Boulogne died in a car accident
18. Morre em SP o empresário Henry Maksoud (in Portuguese)
19. Morre o locutor esportivo Luciano do Valle (in Portuguese)
20. Brazilian Ex-Soldier Who Admitted Torture Is Killed
21. Bispo de Três Lagoas, MS, morre aos 61 anos (in Portuguese)
22. Corpo de dom Aloísio Roque Oppermann é sepultado em Uberaba (in Portuguese)
23. FAO Director-General mourns the passing away of Don Tomás Balduino
24. Bishop Homero Leite Meira
25. Jair Rodrigues morre aos 75 anos (in Portuguese)
26. PIERRE BERNARD / YESO AMALFI
27. Dom Celso Pereira de Almeida morre aos 86 anos (in Portuguese)
28. Archbishop Altamiro Rossato
29. Morre em Salvador arquiteto João Filgueiras Lima, o 'Lelé' (in Portuguese)
30. Morre Joel Camargo, ex-zagueiro do Santos e campeão do mundo em 1970 (in Portuguese)
31. O ex-atacante Washington Cesar Santos, faleceu na manhã deste domingo em Curitiba Archived 2014-05-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
32. Obituary: Ciro de Quadros
33. Marinho Chagas, Former Brazilian National Team Member, Dies at 62 Archived 2014-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
34. Fernandão dies in helicopter accident Archived 2016-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
35. Percussionista do Tamba Trio, Hélcio Milito morre no Rio aos 83 anos Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
36. Ex-governador do Rio de Janeiro Marcello Alencar morre aos 88 anos (in Portuguese)
37. Bishop Vital João Geraldo Wilderink
38. Tico, ex-atacante do Avaí, morre aos 36 anos de ataque cardíaco
39. Moise Safra, Brazilian Billionaire Banker, Dead At 79
40. Former McCann Exec Marcio Moreira Dies At 67
41. Eterno ídolo palestrino, Oberdan Cattani morre aos 95 anos de idade Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
42. Morre aos 83 anos a intellectual Rose Marie Muraro (in Portuguese)
43. Comunicados (in Portuguese)
44. ARCHBISHOP MOACYR J. VITTY, C.S.S. IS CALLED BACK TO FATHER’S HOME Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
45. Morre o naturalista Sr. Amaro Macedo (in Portuguese)
46. Eterno "Carrasco", ex-atacante Assis morre no Paraná, aos 61 anos (in Portuguese)
47. Aos 86 anos, bispo emérito de Santo Ângelo morre no Rio Grande do Sul (in Portuguese)
48. Corpo de ex-deputado Plínio de Arruda Sampaio é velado em São Paulo (in Portuguese)
49. MM Gerdau presta homenagem a Luiz Menezes Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
50. Morre cantora Vange Leonel aos 51 anos (in Portuguese)
51. Brazilian writer Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro dies Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
52. Brazilian writer Rubem Alves dies
53. Founder of Latin American engineering giant Odebrecht dies
54. Brazilian Writer Ariano Suassuna Dies at the Age of 87
55. Astrônomo Ronaldo Mourão morre aos 79 anos no Rio (in Portuguese)
56. Bishop Spiridon Mattar
57. Fausto Fanti, humorista do Hermes & Renato, é encontrado morto em SP (in Portuguese)
58. Archbishop Benedito de Ulhôa Vieira
59. Coach Djalma Cavalcante dies
60. Archbishop Armando Círio, O.S.I. †
61. Brazil presidential candidate Campos killed in plane crash
62. Aos 86 anos, morre o empresário Antônio Ermírio de Moraes (in Portuguese)
63. Sergio Rodrigues: Designer best known for the 'Mole' armchair who sought to express the spirit of his native Brazil
64. Morre Jerônimo Santana, o primeiro governador de Rondônia (in Portuguese)
65. Morre aos 70 anos ex-governador do RN, Iberê Ferreira de Souza (in Portuguese)
66. Bishop Servílio Conti
67. Aos 91 anos, morre o compositor do hino do Cruzeiro Jadir Ambrósio (in Portuguese)
68. Lori Sandri morre aos 65 anos em Curitiba, vítima de tumor cerebral (in Portuguese)
69. Morre o ator Hugo Carvana (in Portuguese)
70. Bishop João Corso, S.D.B.
71. Em última gravação, Edson Piauí deixa recado a crianças: "Futuro decente" (in Portuguese)
72. Ehemaliger brasilianischer Bischof verstorben Archived 2014-11-02 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
73. (Layman) Caetano Antônio Lima dos Santos, O.F.M. Cap. †
74. Morre o poeta mato-grossense Manoel de Barros, aos 97 anos (in Portuguese)
75. Famous Brazilian cardiologist and ex-health minister Adib Jatene dies Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
76. Morre em São Paulo o ex-ministro da Justiça Márcio Thomaz Bastos (in Portuguese)
77. Samuel Klein, founder of Brazil's largest appliance chain, dies Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
78. Bishop Alfredo Ernest Novak
79. Cliburn Piano Winner And TCU Professor José Feghali Has Died
80. Ex-presidente do Avaí, João Nilson Zunino morre aos 68 anos Archived 2014-12-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)