1941 in Brazil

Events in the year 1941 in Brazil.

Incumbents

• President: Getúlio Vargas

Events

• 21 September - The Estádio Presidente Vargas is opened at Fortaleza.^[1]
• date unknown
  • The pulp and paper company Celulose Irani is founded in the State of Rio Grande do Sul.^[2]
  • 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

• 12 February - Dominguinhos, composer, accordionist and singer (died 2013)
• 15 February - Florinda Bolkan, actress
• 26 March - José Edison Mandarino, tennis player
• 22 April - José Guilherme Merquior, diplomat, academic, writer, literary critic and philosopher (died 1991)
• 29 April - Nana Caymmi, singer, daughter of Dorival Caymmi
• 7 August - Celso Lafer, jurist, philosopher and politician
• 30 August - Nelson Xavier, actor

Deaths

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

See also

1941 in Brazilian football

References