1944 in Brazil

Events in the year 1944 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Getúlio Vargas

Governors

• Alagoas: Ismar de Góis Monteiro
• Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
• Bahia: Renato Onofre Pinto Aleixo
• 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: Magalhães Barata
• Paraíba: Rui Carneiro
• Paraná: Manuel Ribas
• Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
• Piauí: Leônidas Melo
• Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão/Antonio Fernandes Dantas
• Rio Grande do Sul: Ernesto Dornelles
• Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
• São Paulo: Fernando de Sousa Costa
• Sergipe: Augusto Maynard Gomes

Vice governors

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

Events

• 1 January - The former Royal Military Academy expends into the city of Resende.
• 2 July - Second World War: The first five thousand Brazilian Expeditionary Force soldiers, the 6th RCT, leave Brazil for Europe aboard the USNS General Mann.
• September - Brazilian air-land forces go into action in Italy.^[1]
• 31 October - Brazilian pilots begin operations, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons.
• date unknown
  • The Banco Nacional is founded in São Paulo.
  • Getúlio Vargas allocated an area of 4 million square meters near Santa Maria for the purpose of building an aerodrome. Santa Maria Airport opens the following year.

Arts and culture

Books

• Jorge Amado - São Jorge dos Ilhéus
• Oswald de Andrade - Meu Testamento

Films

• Corações Sem Piloto
• Berlim na Batucada
• É Proibido Sonhar
• O Brasileiro João de Souza

Music

• Camargo Guarnieri - Symphony no 1

Births

• 8 February - Sebastião Salgado, photojournalist (died 2025)^[2]
• 19 June - Chico Buarque, singer, dramatist, writer and poet
• 27 June - Zezé Motta, actress and singer
• 2 August - Naná Vasconcelos, jazz musician (died 2016)^[3]
• 18 October - Nelson Freire, pianist (died 2021)
• 9 November - Torquato Neto, journalist, poet and songwriter (died 1972)
• 13 December - Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira ("Léo"), comics creator^[4]
• 15 December - Chico Mendes, rubber tapper and activist (died 1988)^[5]

Deaths

• 29 April - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal 1915–17 and 1925–26 (born 1851)