1923 in Brazil

Events in the year 1923 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Artur Bernardes
• Vice President: Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra

Governors

• Alagoas: José Fernandes de Barros Lima
• Amazonas: César do Rego Monteiro
• Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
• Ceará:
  • till 12 July: Justiniano de Serpa
  • from 12 July: Ildefonso Albano
• Goiás:
  • till 27 July: Eugênio Rodrigues Jardim
  • from 27 July: Miguel da Rocha Lima
• Maranhão:
  • till 20 January: Raul da Cunha Machado
  • from 20 January: Godofredo Mendes Viana
• Mato Grosso: Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa
• Minas Gerais: Raul Soares
• Pará: Antônio Emiliano de Sousa
• Paraíba: Sólon Barbosa de Lucena
• Paraná: Caetano Munhoz da Rocha
• Pernambuco: Sérgio Teixeira Lins de Barros Loreto
• Piauí: João Luís Ferreira
• Rio Grande do Norte: Antonio José de Melo e Sousa
• Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

• 3 May - Brazil sign the Pan-American Treaty.^[1]
• 13 August - Grand opening of the Copacabana Palace hotel in Rio de Janeiro.

• date unknown
  • The Brazilian Society of Chemistry is founded.
  • Brazil's first radio broadcasting station, the Radio Society of Rio de Janeiro, is founded; it is still working under the name Rádio MEC.
  • Medeiros e Albuquerque becomes President of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
  • Construction of the Basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes, Belo Horizonte was completed.

Arts and culture

Films

• A Canção da Primavera, directed by Igino Bonfioli and Cyprien Segur.
• Augusto Anibal quer casar, directed by Luiz de Barros
• João da Mata, directed by and starring Amilar Alves

Births

• 11 January – Sérgio Porto, writer (died 1968)
• 22 January – Marcus Vinícius Dias, basketball player (died 1992)
• 19 April – Lygia Fagundes Telles, novelist and writer (died 2022)^[2]
• 16 August – Millôr Fernandes, journalist, cartoonist, humorist and playwright (died 2012)^[3]
• 30 October – Lourdinha Bittencourt, actress (died 1979)^[4]
• 1 November – Newton Holanda Gurgel, Bishop of Crato 1993-2001 (died 2017)
• 14 November – Cleyde Yáconis, actress (died 2013)

Deaths

• 1 March – Rui Barbosa, writer and politician (born 1849)^[5]
• 11 March – Júlia da Silva Bruhns, mother of Thomas Mann (born 1851)^[6]