1940 in Brazil

← 1939 1938 1937 1940 in Brazil → 1941 1942 1943
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1940 Timeline of Brazilian history

Events in the year 1940 in Brazil.

Incumbents

• President: Getúlio Vargas

Events

• 27 April - The Estádio do Pacaembu is inaugurated, at a ceremony attended by President Getúlio Vargas.
• date unknown - The minority Baenan language becomes extinct.^[1]

Arts and culture

Films

• Argila, directed by Humberto Mauro

Births

• 15 May - Oscar Castro-Neves, guitarist, arranger, and composer (died 2013)^[2]
• 19 May - Carlos Diegues, film director
• 23 June - Sérgio Reis, singer and actor
• 21 July - Marco Maciel, politician
• 23 September - Michel Temer, politician
• 21 or 23 October - Pelé, footballer^[3]

Deaths

• 29 January - Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, born second-in-line to the Imperial throne of Brazil (born 1875)
• 8 November - Evandro Chagas, physician and biomedical scientist (born 1905; air crash)
• date unknown - Manuel F. Araujo, actor (born 1880)

See also

1940 in Brazilian football

References

1. Loukotka, Čestmír (1963). "Documents et Vocabulaires Inédits de Langues et de Dialects Sud-Américains". Journal de la Société des Américanistes. 52: 7–60. doi:10.3406/jsa.1963.2001.
2. Morre Oscar Castro Neves (in Portuguese)
3. Pelé; Duarte, Orlando; Bellos, Alex (2006). Pelé : the autobiography. London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7432-7582-8. Retrieved 2 October 2010. Shortly before I came along, there was another arrival in Três Corações: electricity. In order to celebrate this great improvement to our daily lives, Dondinho named me Edson, a tribute to Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb. In fact, on my birth certificate I am actually called Edison with an 'i', a mistake that persists to this day. I'm Edson with no 'i', but to my eternal annoyance quite often the 'i' appears on official or personal documents and time after time I have to explain why. As if that wasn't confusing enough, they got the date wrong on my birth certificate as well – it says 21 October. I'm not sure how this came about; probably because in Brazil we're not so fussy about accuracy. This is another mistake that carries on to this day. When I took out my first passport, the date was put in as 21 October and each time I have renewed it the date has stayed the same.