1931 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Getúlio Vargas
• Vice President: none

  Governors

• :pt:Lista de governadores de Alagoas|Alagoas:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Goiás|Goiás:
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais:
• :pt:Lista de governadores do Pará|Pará:
• :pt:Lista de governadores da Paraíba|Paraíba:
• Paraná:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Pernambuco|Pernambuco:
• :pt:Lista de governadores do Piauí|Piauí:
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Santa Catarina|Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Sergipe|Sergipe:

  Vice governors

• :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Rio Grande do Norte|Rio Grande do Norte:
• :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de São Paulo|São Paulo:

  Events

• 12 October - The statue of Christ the Redeemer, overlooking Rio de Janeiro, is consecrated.
• date unknown
• *Frente Negra Brasileira, Brazil's first Black political party, is created.
• *The Caiçaras Club is founded in Rio de Janeiro.

  Arts and culture

Books

• Jorge Amado - O País do Carnaval
• Júlio Afrânio Peixoto - História da literatura brasileira

  Films

• Limite, directed by Mário Peixoto

  Music

• Zequinha de Abreu's piece "Tico-Tico no Farelo" is renamed "Tico-Tico no Fubá"

  Births

• 8 January - Ozires Silva, entrepreneur, founder of Embraer
• 19 January - Ottomar Pinto, politician, Governor of Roraima
• 10 February - Cauby Peixoto, singer
• 16 March - Augusto Boal, theatre director, writer and politician
• 2 March - Ruth Rocha, writer
• 31 March - Ary Fernandes, playwright, actor, producer and filmmaker
• 28 April – Nair Bello, actress and comedian
• 8 May - Etty Fraser, actress
• 10 June - João Gilberto, singer and guitarist
• 13 June – Moysés Baumstein, holographer and artist
• 18 June - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 34th President of Brazil
• 3 September - Paulo Maluf, politician
• 16 October - Mílton Alves da Silva, football player
• 17 October - José Alencar, politician

  Deaths

• 26 January - Graça Aranha, writer and diplomat
• 9 June - Henrique Oswald, pianist and composer
• 24 July - Nonô, footballer
• 8 September - Prince Luiz Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, descendant of the Brazilian Imperial Family
• 6 October - Oscar Cox, sportsman