1924 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1924 in Brazil.
Incumbents
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
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)
References
- ^ Official Olympic Reports Archived 2006-06-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kobayashi, Shuji; Langguth, Alfredo (1999). "A new species of titi monkey, Callicebus Thomas, from north-eastern Brazil (Primates, Cebidae)". Revta bras. Zool: 531–551.
- ^ 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)
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