1924 in Brazil

← 1923 1922 1921 1924 in Brazil → 1925 1926 1927
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1924 Timeline of Brazilian history

Events in the year 1924 in Brazil.

Incumbents

• President: Artur Bernardes
• Vice President: Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra

Events

• 4 May - Among competitors at the Summer Olympics are eight Brazilian athletes, two rowers and a sport shooter. The country does not win any medals.^[1]

Arts and culture

Films

• Gigolete, directed by Vittorio Verga and starring Augusto Aníbal
• O Trem da Morte, starring Arturo Carrari
• Paulo e Virginia, directed by Francisco de Almeida Fleming

Books

• Oswald de Andrade - Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar

Births

• 25 April - Paulo Machado de Carvalho Filho, businessman and impresario (died 2010)
• 4 June - Adelmar Faria Coimbra-Filho, biologist and primatologist, after whom Coimbra Filho's titi is named after him.^[2]
• 25 July - Leonardo Villar, film actor
• 13 August - Helena Meireles, guitarist and composer (died 2005)
• 10 October - Lídia Mattos, actress (died 2013)
• 24 October - Aziz Ab'Sáber, environmentalist (died 2012)
• Unknown date - Sérgio Hingst, actor (died 2004)

Deaths

• 31 March - Nilo Peçanha, politician, former President and Vice-President (born 1867)^[3]
• 21 May - Blessed Adílio Daronch, student (born 1908; shot and killed by revolutionaries)
• 20 October - Hercílio Luz, politician (born 1860)

See also

• 1924 in Brazilian football

References

1. Official Olympic Reports
2. Kobayashi, Shuji & Langguth, Alfredo (1999). "A new species of titi monkey, Callicebus Thomas, from north-eastern Brazil (Primates, Cebidae)". Revta bras. Zool: 531–551.
3. GIFFIN, Donald W. The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Aug., 1964), pp. 437–439. Review of TINOCO, Brígido. A vida de Nilo Peçanha. Coleção Documentos Brasileiros, Livraria José Olympio Editora, RJ, 1962. (visited 3 September 2008)