2015 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Dilma Rousseff
• Vice President: Michel Temer

  Governors

• Acre:
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• Amapa:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• Espírito Santo:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Goiás|Goiás:
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso:
• Mato Grosso do Sul:
• Minas Gerais:
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• Paraná:
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• Rio Grande do Norte:
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• Rondônia:
• Roraima:
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• São Paulo:
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• Tocantins:

  Vice governors

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• :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Rondônia|Rondônia:
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• :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Santa Catarina|Santa Catarina:
• :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de São Paulo|São Paulo:
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  Events

January

• January 6 - Two commuter trains collide at Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro, injuring 158 people.

  February

• February 24 - The judge in the insider trading trial of Eike Batista is videotaped driving one of his seized vehicles.

  March

• March 15
• *Hundreds of thousands of people in Brazil protest against corruption and denounce the government of President Dilma Rousseff.
• *51 people die in a bus accident near Joinville.

  September

• September 17 - The Supreme Court of Brazil ruled that campaign donations from businesses should be illegal.

  November

• November 5 - An iron ore tailings dam in Bento Rodrigues, a subdistrict of Mariana, Brazil, suffered a catastrophic failure, causing flooding, killing 17 and injuring 16.

  Arts and culture

• 2014–15 Brazil network television schedule
• 2015–16 Brazil network television schedule
• 2015 in Brazilian television
• List of Brazilian films of 2015

  Sports

• 2015 in Brazilian football
• Brazil at the 2015 Pan American Games

• Deaths

• January 4 – Haroldo Lara, 80, Brazilian Olympic swimmer.
• January 12 – Inge Vermeulen, 30, Brazilian-born Dutch field hockey player, European champion.
• January 16 – Vivaldo Frota, 86, Brazilian politician, Governor of Amazonas.
• January 20 – Ricardo dos Santos, 24, Brazilian surfer, shot.
• January 24 – Maria Della Costa, 89, Brazilian actress, pulmonary edema.
• January 29 – José Martins da Silva, 78, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Porto Velho.
• February 2 – Dalmo Gaspar, 82, Brazilian footballer.
• February 4 – Odete Lara, 85, Brazilian actress, heart attack.
• February 12 – Tomie Ohtake, 101, Japanese-born Brazilian artist, heart failure.
• February 20 –, 78, Brazilian evangelist, founder of the God is Love Pentecostal Church.
• February 22 – Renato Rocha, 53, musician and songwriter, cardiac arrest.
• March 3 – Octávio Mobiglia, 83, Brazilian Olympic swimmer.
• March 8 – Inezita Barroso, 90, Brazilian folk singer.
• March 14 – Therezinha Zerbini, 86, Brazilian lawyer and feminist activist.
• March 22 –, 74, Brazilian actor, pneumonia.
• March 27 – Carlos Falchi, 70, Brazilian-born American accessories designer.
• April 9 – João Alves dos Santos, 58, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Paranaguá.
• April 10 – Bárbara Heliodora, 91, Brazilian theatre critic.
• April 12 – Paulo Brossard, 90, Brazilian jurist and politician.
• April 13 – Antônio Alberto Guimarães Rezende, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caetité.
• April 20 – Cláudio Cunha, 68, Brazilian actor.
• April 20 – Pedro Eugênio, 65, Brazilian politician, MP, complications from surgery.
• April 23 –, 65, Brazilian television director and producer.
• April 27 – Inês Etienne Romeu, 72, Brazilian political prisoner.
• April 28 – Antônio Abujamra, 82, Brazilian actor and director.
• April 29 – Valmir Louruz, 71, Brazilian football manager.
• April 29 – Rodrigo Gularte, 42, Brazilian drug trafficker
• May 2 – Sarah Correa, 22, Brazilian swimmer, struck by car.
• May 4 – Vicente Joaquim Zico, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Coadjutor Archbishop and Archbishop of Belém do Pará.
• May 10 – Luiz Henrique da Silveira, 75, Brazilian politician, Senator, Governor of Santa Catarina, Minister of Science and Technology, heart attack.
• May 14 – Geraldo Majela de Castro, 84, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Coadjutor Bishop and Archbishop of Montes Claros.
• May 16 – Elias Gleizer, 81, Brazilian actor, circulatory failure.
• May 26 – Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins, 82, Brazilian entomologist.
• June 8 – Aldo da Rosa, 97, Brazilian electrical engineer.
• June 12 – Fernando Brant, 68, Brazilian writer.
• June 12 – José Messias, 86, Brazilian musician and television personality.
• June 14 – Zito, 82, Brazilian footballer, World Cup-winning team member, complications of a stroke.
• June 22 – Carlinhos, 77, Brazilian football player and coach.
• June 24 – Cristiano Araújo, 29, Brazilian singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
• June 24 – Clovis Bueno, 74, Brazilian art director.
• July 21 – Luiz Paulo Conde, 80, Brazilian politician and architect, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro.
• August 2 – Içami Tiba, 74, Brazilian psychiatrist and writer.
• August 26 – Carmelo Domênico Recchia, 93, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, last Territorial Abbot of Claraval.
• September 4 – Joel Rufino dos Santos, 74, Brazilian historian and writer.
• September 5 – Alacid Nunes, 90, Brazilian politician, Governor of Pará.
• September 13 – Betty Lago, 60, Brazilian actress, gallbladder cancer.
• September 13 – Vivinho, 54, Brazilian footballer.
• September 16 – Clovis Acosta Fernandes, 60, Brazilian celebrity, cancer.
• September 30 – Caio César Ignácio Cardoso de Melo, 27, Brazilian voice actor and policeman, shot.
• October 4 – José Eduardo Dutra, 58, Brazilian businessman and politician, Senator.
• October 4 – João Leithardt Neto, 57, Brazilian footballer, Olympic silver medalist, liver cancer.
• October 7 – Maria Lúcia Prandi, 70, Brazilian academic and politician, cancer.
• October 7 – Jorge Andrade, 73, Brazilian footballer, cancer.
• October 7 – Ângelo da Cunha Pinto, 66, Brazilian-Portuguese chemist.
• October 9 –, 83, Brazilian singer.
• October 14 –, 77, Brazilian music producer and television director.
• October 15 – Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, 83, Brazilian military officer, cancer.
• October 18 – João Carlos Sobreira, 32, Brazilian motorcyclist, race collision.
• October 20 – Lourival de Almeida Filho, 74, Brazilian footballer.
• October 20 – Yoná Magalhães, 80, Brazilian actress.
• October 21 – Sylvia Athayde, 75, Brazilian professor and museologist.
• October 25 –, 72, Brazilian politician and lawyer, MLA of Minas Gerais, helicopter crash.
• October 27 – Ada Chaseliov, 63, Brazilian telenovela actress, lymphoma.
• October 28 – Jorge Scarso, 99, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Patos de Minas.
• October 29 – Wilson Campos, 65, Brazilian footballer, liver cancer.
• October 29 – Lucídio Portela Nunes, 93, Brazilian politician, Governor of Piauí.
• October 29 – Harry Bernardo Schwarz, 91, Brazilian footballer.
• November 3 –, 53, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
• November 6 –, 102, Brazilian musician and tap dancer.
• November 6 – Beni Veras, 80, Brazilian politician, Governor of Ceará.
• November 7 – João Verle, 75, Brazilian politician, Mayor of Porto Alegre.
• November 9 – Sebastião do Rego Barros Netto, 75, Brazilian lawyer and diplomat, Ambassador to Russia and Argentina, fall from building.
• November 10 –, 61, Brazilian journalist, cancer.
• November 17 – Luiz de Carvalho, 90, Brazilian gospel singer.
• November 27 – José Benedito Simão, 64, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Assis.
• November 28 – Nauro Machado, 80, Brazilian poet.
• December 5 – Marília Pêra, 72, Brazilian actress, lung cancer.
• December 9 – Juvenal Juvêncio, 81, Brazilian lawyer and sports director.
• December 19 – Selma Reis, 55, Brazilian actress and singer.
• December 21 – Jupiter Apple, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, multiple organ failure.
• December 25 –, 61, Brazilian singer, gunshot.