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Events in the year 1923 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
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
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]
 
References
- ↑ League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 33, pp. 26-45.
 - ↑ Acclaimed Brazilian writer Telles dies at 98
 - ↑ "Millôr Online"
 - ↑ Bonventti, Rodolfo Carlos. "Lourdinha Bittencourt" (in Portuguese). Dramaturgia in Memorian.com.br. Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2014-06-23.
 - ↑ Turner, CW (2005) [1945], Ruy Barbosa: Brazilian crusader for the essential freedoms, New York: Kessinger Publishing, ISBN 1-419-10424-1.
 - ↑ Miskolci, Richard. Thomas Mann: Artista Mestiço. São Paulo: Annablume/FAPESP, 2003.
 
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