1941 in Brazil

Events in the year 1941 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Getúlio Vargas

Governors

• Alagoas: José Maria Correia das Neves (till 19 February); Ismar de Góis Monteiro (from 19 February)
• 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: Rui Carneiro
• 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 (till 4 June); Fernando de Sousa Costa (from 4 June)
• Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho (till 30 June); Milton Pereira de Azevedo (from 30 June)

Vice governors

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

Events

• 22 March – The Brazilian ship Taubaté is attacked by a German warplane in the Mediterranean Sea.^[1]
• 21 September – The Estádio Presidente Vargas is opened at Fortaleza.^[2]
• date unknown
  • The pulp and paper company Celulose Irani is founded in the State of Rio Grande do Sul.^[3]
  • Oscar Lorenzo Fernández's nationalist-themed opera, Malazarte, to a libretto by José Pereira Graça Aranha, receives its première at the Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro, eight years after it was completed.

Arts and culture

Films

• Barulho na Universidade
• 24 Horas de Sonho

Births

Eduardo Suplicy

February

• 11 February – Sérgio Mendes, musician
• 12 February – Dominguinhos, composer, accordionist and singer (died 2013)
• 15 February – Florinda Bolkan, actress

March

• 26 March – José Edison Mandarino, tennis player

April

• 19 April – Roberto Carlos, singer
• 22 April – José Guilherme Merquior, diplomat, academic, writer, literary critic and philosopher (died 1991)
• 29 April – Nana Caymmi, singer, daughter of Dorival Caymmi
• 21 June – Eduardo Suplicy, left-wing politician, economist and professor
• 7 August – Celso Lafer, jurist, philosopher and politician
• 30 August – Nelson Xavier, actor (died 2017)

Deaths

• 9 March – Nestor Gomez, politician (born 1875)