1920 in Brazil

← 1919 1918 1917 1920 in Brazil → 1921 1922 1923
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1920 Timeline of Brazilian history

Events in the year 1920 in Brazil.

Incumbents

• President: Epitácio Pessoa
• Vice President: Delfim Moreira (until 1 July); Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva (from 10 November)

Events

• 20 April - Opening ceremony of the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, at which Brazil competes for the first time.^[1] Sport shooter Guilherme Paraense is the first Brazilian to win a gold medal.

Arts and culture

Books

• Monteiro Lobato^[2] writes the first of his Sítio do Picapau Amarelo novel series.

Films

• Coração de Gaúcho, directed by and starring Luiz de Barros
• O Crime de Cravinhos, directed by Arturo Carrari and starring Rodolfo Arena.
• O Garimpeiro, directed by and starring Vittorio Capellaro

Births

• 9 January - João Cabral de Melo Neto, poet and diplomat (died 1999)^[3]
• 21 April - Anselmo Duarte, actor, screenwriter and film director (died 2009)^[4]
• 26 July - Celso Furtado (died 2004)

Deaths

• 26 March - Prince Luís of Orléans-Braganza, claimant to the Brazilian throne (born 1878; rheumatism)^[5]
• 1 July - Delfim Moreira, politician (born 1868)
• 16 October - Alberto Nepomuceno, conductor and composer (born 1864)^[6]

See also

• 1920 in Brazilian football

References

1. Official Olympic Reports
2. Monteiro Lobato - E-Biografias
3. Academia Brasileira de Letras profile of João Cabral de Melo Neto
4. "Anselmo Duarte morre em SP aos 89 anos". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). November 7, 2009. Archived from the original on December 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
5. Barman, Roderick J. (2002). Princess Isabel of Brazil: gender and power in the nineteenth century. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources. ISBN 0-8420-2846-3. BR História. nº 4, Year 1. Duetto, 2007. p 232
6. Guimarães, Maria Inês (1994). "Nepomuceno Biography, and Program Notes to Marco Polo Recording of Piano Works". Naxos Records. Retrieved 2007-11-28.