Events in the year 1944 in Brazil.
Incumbents Federal government President: Getúlio Vargas
Governors Alagoas: Ismar de Góis Monteiro Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia Bahia: Renato Onofre Pinto Aleixo Ceará: Francisco de Meneses Pimentel Espírito Santo: João Punaro Bley Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira Maranhão: Mato Grosso: Júlio Strübing Müller Minas Gerais: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro Pará: Magalhães Barata Paraíba: Rui Carneiro Paraná: Manuel Ribas Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães Piauí: Leônidas Melo Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão/Antonio Fernandes Dantas Rio Grande do Sul: Ernesto Dornelles Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos São Paulo: Fernando de Sousa Costa Sergipe: Augusto Maynard Gomes
Vice governors Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor São Paulo: no vice governor
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.Command Magazine, issue 51, page 34 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 (died 2025) 19 June - Chico Buarque, singer, dramatist, writer and poet 27 June - Zezé Motta, actress and singer 11 July - Valdeir Vieira, football manager 2 August - Naná Vasconcelos, jazz musician (died 2016) 6 October - Amelinha Teles, journalist and human rights activist (died 2026)Morre Amelinha Teles, escritora e militante da ditadura militar 18 October - Nelson Freire, pianist (died 2021) 9 November - Torquato Neto, journalist, poet and songwriter (died 1972) 13 December - Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira ("Léo"), comics creator 15 December - Chico Mendes, rubber tapper and activist (died 1988)
Deaths 29 April - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal 1915–17 and 1925–26 (born 1851)
References
See also 1944 in Brazilian football List of Brazilian films of 1944