1944 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Getúlio Vargas

  Governors

• :pt:Lista de governadores de Alagoas|Alagoas:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• Espírito Santo:
• :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

• 1 January - The former Royal Military Academy expends into the city of Resende.
• 2 July - Second World War: The first five thousand Brazilian Expeditionary Force soldiers, the 6th RCT, leave Brazil for Europe aboard the USNS General Mann.
• September - Brazilian air-land forces go into action in Italy.
• 31 October - Brazilian pilots begin operations, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons.
• date unknown
• *The Banco Nacional is founded in São Paulo.
• *Getúlio Vargas allocated an area of 4 million square meters near Santa Maria for the purpose of building an aerodrome. Santa Maria Airport opens the following year.

  Arts and culture

Books

• Jorge Amado - São Jorge dos Ilhéus
• Oswald de Andrade - Meu Testamento

  Films

• Corações Sem Piloto
• Berlim na Batucada
• É Proibido Sonhar
• O Brasileiro João de Souza

  Music

• Camargo Guarnieri - Symphony no 1

  Births

• 8 February - Sebastião Salgado, photojournalist
• 19 June - Chico Buarque, singer, dramatist, writer and poet
• 2 August - Naná Vasconcelos, jazz musician
• 18 October - Nelson Freire, pianist
• 9 November - Torquato Neto, journalist, poet and songwriter
• 13 December - Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira, comics creator

  Deaths

• 29 April - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal 1915–17 and 1925–26