2015 in Brazil

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Events in the year 2015 in Brazil:

## Incumbents

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### Federal government

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* President: Dilma Rousseff
* Vice President: Michel Temer

### Governors

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* Acre: Tião Viana
* Alagoas:
* Teotônio Vilela Filho (until 1 January)
* Renan Filho (starting 1 January)
* Amapa:
* Camilo Capiberibe (until 1 January)
* Waldez Góes (starting 1 January)
* Amazonas: José Melo
* Bahia:
* Jacques Wagner (until 1 January)
* Rui Costa (starting 1 January)
* Ceará:
* Cid Gomes (until 1 January)
* Camilo Santana (starting 1 January)
* Espírito Santo:
* Renato Casagrande (until 1 January)
* Paulo Hartung (starting 1 January)
* Goiás: Marconi Perillo
* Maranhão:
* Arnaldo Melo (until 1 January)
* Flávio Dino (starting 1 January)
* Mato Grosso: Pedro Taques
* Mato Grosso do Sul:
* André Puccinelli (until 1 January)
* Reinaldo Azambuja (starting 1 January)
* Minas Gerais: Fernando Damata Pimentel (starting 1 January)
* Pará: Simão Jatene
* Paraíba: Ricardo Coutinho
* Paraná: Beto Richa
* Pernambuco:
* João Lyra Neto (until 1 January)
* Paulo Câmara (starting 1 January)
* Piauí:
* Zé Filho (until 1 January)
* Wellington Dias (starting 1 January)
* Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Fernando Pezão (starting 1 January)
* Rio Grande do Norte:
* Rosalba Ciarlini Rosado (until 1 January)
* Robinson Faria (starting 1 January)
* Rio Grande do Sul:
* Tarso Genro (until 1 January)
* José Ivo Sartori (starting 1 January)
* Rondônia: Confúcio Moura
* Roraima: Suely Campos
* Santa Catarina: Raimundo Colombo
* São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
* Sergipe: Jackson Barreto
* Tocantins:
* Sandoval Cardoso (until 1 January)
* Marcelo Miranda (starting 1 January)

### Vice governors

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* Acre:
* Carlos César Correia de Messias (until 1 January)
* Maria Nazareth Melo de Araújo Lambert (starting 1 January)
* Alagoas:
* José Thomaz da Silva Nonô Neto (until 1 January)
* José Luciano Barbosa da Silva (starting 1 January)
* Amapá:
* Doralice Nascimento de Souza (until 1 January)
* João Bosco Papaléo Paes (starting 1 January)
* Amazonas:
* José Melo de Oliveira (until 1 January)
* José Henrique Oliveira (starting 1 January)
* Bahia:
* Otto Alencar (until 1 January)
* João Leão (starting 1 January)
* Ceará:
* Domingos Gomes de Aguiar Filho (until 1 January)
* Maria Izolda Cela de Arruda Coelho (starting 1 January)
* Espírito Santo:
* Givaldo Vieira da Silva (until 1 January)
* César Roberto Colnago (starting 1 January)
* Goiás: José Eliton de Figueiredo Júnior
* Maranhão:
* Joaquim Washington Luiz de Oliveira (until 1 January)
* Carlos Orleans Brandão Júnior (starting 1 January)
* Mato Grosso:
* Francisco Tarquínio Daltro (until 1 January)
* Carlos Henrique Baqueta Fávaro (starting 1 January)
* Mato Grosso do Sul:
* Simone Tebet (until 1 January)
* Rose Modesto (starting 1 January)
* Minas Gerais:
* Alberto Pinto Coelho Júnior (until 1 January)
* Antônio Eustáquio Andrade Ferreira (starting 1 January)
* Pará:
* Helenilson Cunha Pontes (until 1 January)
* José da Cruz Marinho (starting 1 January)
* Paraíba:
* Rômulo José de Gouveia (until 1 January)
* Lígia Feliciano (starting 1 January)
* Paraná:
* Flávio José Arns (until 1 January)
* Maria Aparecida Borghetti (starting 1 January)
* Pernambuco:
* João Soares Lyra Neto (until 1 January)
* Raul Jean Louis Henry Júnior (starting 1 January)
* Piaui:
* Antônio José de Moraes Souza Filho (until 1 January)
* Margarete de Castro Coelho (starting 1 January)
* Rio de Janeiro: Francisco Dornelles (starting January 1)
* Rio Grande do Norte:
* Robinson Faria (until 1 January)
* Fábio Dantas (starting 1 January)
* Rio Grande do Sul:
* Jorge Alberto Duarte Grill (until 1 January)
* José Paulo Dornelles Cairoli (starting 1 January)
* Rondônia:
* Airton Pedro Gurgacz (until 1 January)
* Daniel Pereira [pt] (starting 1 January)
* Roraima:
* Francisco de Assis Rodrigues (until 1 January)
* Paulo César Justo Quartiero (starting 1 January)
* Santa Catarina: Eduardo Pinho Moreira
* São Paulo:
* Guilherme Afif Domingos (until 1 January)
* Márcio França (starting 1 January)
* Sergipe:
* Jackson Barreto de Lima (until 1 January)
* Belivaldo Chagas Silva (starting 1 January)
* Tocantins: Cláudia Telles de Menezes Pires Martins Lelis (starting 1 January)

## Events

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### January

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* January 1: Dilma Rousseff is inaugurated for a second term as Brazilian President.[1]
* January 6: Two commuter trains collide at Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro, injuring 158 people.[2]

### February

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* February 4: The president of Petrobras, Maria das Graças Foster, as well as five other directors of the oil company resign; amidst allegations of corruption.[3]
* February 21: Six months since the beginning of Operation Castanheira, Ezequiel Antônio Castanha, who is considered to be the biggest Amazon deforester of all time, is arrested. This was a joint operation by the Federal Police, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment, the Federal Public Ministry, the Federal Revenue Service, and the National Public Security Force. [4][5]
* February 24: The judge in the insider trading trial of Eike Batista is videotaped driving one of his seized vehicles.[6]

### March

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* March 4: The Supreme Federal Court extinguishes the sentence of former Workers' Party president José Genoino, after being convicted in the monthly allowance process.[7]
* March 15
* Hundreds of thousands of people in Brazil protest against corruption and denounce the government of President Dilma Rousseff.[8]
* 51 people die in a bus accident near Joinville.[9]

### July

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* July 7: Two million people attend the 19th São Paulo Gay Pride Parade on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo.[10]

### August

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* August 16: In more than 200 cities, in all 26 states in the country, people protest against the Workers' Party government, calling for the removal of President Dilma Rousseff through impeachment or resignation. [11]

### September

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* September 17: The Supreme Court of Brazil ruled that campaign donations from businesses should be illegal.[12]

### November

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* November 5: An iron ore tailings dam in Bento Rodrigues, a subdistrict of Mariana, Minas Gerais, suffers a catastrophic failure, causing flooding, killing 19 and injuring over 16.[13] This would become the biggest environmental disaster in the country’s history after the mud had reached the course of the Doce River and later in the following weeks, the Atlantic Ocean.[14]

### December

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* December 2: The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies accepts the impeachment request of President Dilma Rousseff.[15]

## Arts and culture

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* 2014–15 Brazil network television schedule
* 2015–16 Brazil network television schedule
* 2015 in Brazilian television
* List of Brazilian films of 2015

## Sports

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* 2015 in Brazilian football
* Brazil at the 2015 Pan American Games
* UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs. Mir

## Deaths

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### January

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* January 4: Haroldo Lara, 80, Olympic swimmer (1952, 1956).[16]
* January 12: Inge Vermeulen, 30, Brazilian-born Dutch field hockey player (national team), European champion (2009).[17]
* January 16: Vivaldo Frota, 86, Governor of Amazonas (1990–1991).[18]
* January 20: Ricardo dos Santos, 24, surfer, shot.[19]
* January 24: Maria Della Costa, 89, actress (Brasileiras e Brasileiros), pulmonary edema.[20]
* January 29: José Martins da Silva, 78, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Porto Velho (1982–1997).[21]

### February

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* February 2: Dalmo Gaspar, 82, footballer (Santos).[22]
* February 4: Odete Lara, 85, actress, heart attack.[23]
* February 12: Tomie Ohtake, 101, Japanese-born Brazilian artist, heart failure.[24]
* February 20: David Martins Miranda [pt], 78, evangelist and founder of the God is Love Pentecostal Church.[25]
* February 22: Renato Rocha, 53, musician and songwriter (Legião Urbana), cardiac arrest.[26]

### March

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* March 3: Octávio Mobiglia, 83, Olympic swimmer (1952, 1956).[27]
* March 8: Inezita Barroso, 90, folk singer.[28]
* March 14: Therezinha Zerbini, 86, lawyer and feminist activist.[29]
* March 27: Carlos Falchi, 70, Brazilian-born American accessories designer.[30]

### April

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* April 9: João Alves dos Santos, 58, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Paranaguá.[31]
* April 10: Bárbara Heliodora, 91, theatre critic.[32]
* April 12: Paulo Brossard, 90, jurist and politician.[33]
* April 13: Antônio Alberto Guimarães Rezende, 89, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caetité (1981–2002).[34]
* April 20:
* Cláudio Cunha, 68, actor.[35]
* Pedro Eugênio, 65, politician, MP (1998–2014), complications from surgery.[36]
* April 27: Inês Etienne Romeu, 72, political prisoner.[37]
* April 28: Antônio Abujamra, 82, actor and director.[38]
* April 29:
* Valmir Louruz, 71, football manager (Juventude, Pelotas).[39]
* Rodrigo Gularte, 42, drug trafficker

### May

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* May 2: Sarah Correa, 22, swimmer, struck by car.[40]
* May 4: Vicente Joaquim Zico, 88, Roman Catholic prelate, Coadjutor Archbishop (1980–1990) and Archbishop of Belém do Pará (1990–2004).[41]
* May 10: Luiz Henrique da Silveira, 75, Senator (since 2011), Governor of Santa Catarina (2003–2006, 2007–2010), Minister of Science and Technology (1987–1988), heart attack.[42]
* May 14: Geraldo Majela de Castro, 84, Roman Catholic prelate, Coadjutor Bishop (1982–1988) and Archbishop of Montes Claros (1988–2007).[43]
* May 16: Elias Gleizer, 81, actor, circulatory failure.[44]
* May 26: Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins, 82, entomologist.[45]

### June

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* June 8: Aldo da Rosa, 97, electrical engineer.[46]
* June 12:
* Fernando Brant, 68, writer.[47]
* José Messias, 86, musician and television personality.[48]
* June 14: Zito, 82, Brazilian footballer, World Cup-winning team member (1958, 1962), complications of a stroke.[49]
* June 22: Carlinhos, 77, football player and coach.[50]
* June 24: Cristiano Araújo, 29, singer and songwriter, traffic collision.[51]

### July

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* July 21: Luiz Paulo Conde, 80, architect and Mayor of Rio de Janeiro (1997–2001).[52]

### August

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* August 2: Içami Tiba, 74, psychiatrist and writer.[53]
* August 26: Carmelo Domênico Recchia, 93, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, last Territorial Abbot of Claraval (1976–1999).[54]

### September

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* September 4: Joel Rufino dos Santos, 74, historian and writer.[55]
* September 5: Alacid Nunes, 90, Governor of Pará (1966–1971, 1979–1983).[56]
* September 13:
* Betty Lago, 60, actress, gallbladder cancer.[57]
* Vivinho, 54, footballer (Vasco).[58]
* September 30: Caio César Ignácio Cardoso de Melo, 27, Brazilian voice actor (Harry Potter) and policeman, shot.[59]

### October

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* October 4:
* José Eduardo Dutra, 58, businessman (Petrobras) and politician, Senator (since 1994).[60]
* João Leithardt Neto, 57, footballer, Olympic silver medalist (1984), liver cancer.[61]
* October 7:
* Maria Lúcia Prandi, 70, academic and politician, cancer.[62]
* Ângelo da Cunha Pinto, 66, Brazilian-Portuguese chemist.[63]
* October 15: Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, 83, military officer, cancer.[64]
* October 20: Yoná Magalhães, 80, actress.[65]
* October 27: Ada Chaseliov, 63, telenovela actress, lymphoma.[66]
* October 28: Jorge Scarso, 99, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Patos de Minas (1967–1992).[67]
* October 29: Lucídio Portela Nunes, 93, Governor of Piauí (1979–1983).[68]

### November

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* November 6: Beni Veras, 80, Governor of Ceará (2002).[69]
* November 7: João Verle, 75, Mayor of Porto Alegre (2002–2004).[70]
* November 9: Sebastião do Rego Barros Netto, 75, lawyer and diplomat, Ambassador to Russia (1990–1994) and Argentina (1999–2001), fall from building.[71]
* November 27: José Benedito Simão, 64, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Assis (since 2009).[72]
* November 28: Nauro Machado, 80, poet.[73]

### December

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* December 5: Marília Pêra, 72, actress (Pixote, Better Days Ahead), lung cancer.[74]
* December 9: Juvenal Juvêncio, 81, lawyer and sports director.[75]
* December 19: Selma Reis, 55, actress and singer.[76]
* December 21: Jupiter Apple, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (TNT, Os Cascavelletes), multiple organ failure.[77]

## See also

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* 2015 in Brazilian football

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* 1895
* 1896
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* 1898
* 1899
* 1900

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* 1901
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21st century|

* 2001
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* 2007
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* 2009
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* 2011
* 2012
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* 2014
* 2015
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Sovereign states|

* Argentina
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Chile
* Colombia
* Ecuador
* Guyana
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Suriname
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Dependencies, colonies
and other territories

*   * Falkland Islands
* French Guiana
* South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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