1928 in Brazil

Events in the year 1928 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Alagoas:
- till 7 June: Pedro da Costa Rego
- 7 June-12 June: José Julio Cansanção
- from 12 June: Álvaro Correia Pais
Amazonas: Ifigênio Ferreira de Sales
Bahia: Góis Calmon (till 18 March); Vital Soares (from 19 March)
Ceará: José Moreira da Rocha (till 19 May); Eduardo Henrique Girão (19 May - 12 July); José Carlos de Matos Peixoto (from 12 July)
Goiás: Brasil Caiado
Maranhão: José Magalhães de Almeida
Mato Grosso: Mário Correia da Costa
Minas Gerais: Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada
Pará: Dionísio Bentes
Paraíba:
- till 22 October: João Suassuna
- from 22 October: João Pessoa Cavalcanti
Paraná: Caetano Munhoz da Rocha; Afonso Camargo
Pernambuco: Estácio Coimbra
Piauí:
- till 1 July: Matias Olímpio de Melo
- from 1 July: João de Deus Pires Leal
Rio Grande do Norte: Juvenal Lamartine de Faria
Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros (till 25 January); Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (from 25 January)^[1]
Santa Catarina: Adolf Konder
São Paulo: Júlio Prestes^[2]
Sergipe: Manuel Correia Dantas

22 July - The Estádio Parque São Jorge football stadium in São Paulo is inaugurated.^[3]
10 August - The ETA – Empresa de Transporte Aéreo airline is founded; it remains in operation for only a year.^[4]
3 December - Disaster of the Dornier J 'Santos Dumont'.^[5]
date unknown - The Liberator Party (Brazil) is founded for the first time, by members of the Rio Grande do Sul Federalist Party, notably Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil.

6 January - Carlos Manga, film director (died 2015)
1 March - Maurício do Valle, actor (died 1994)
13 March - Paulo Ribenboim, mathematician^[6]
19 March - Dequinha, footballer (died 1997)
23 April - Martim Francisco, association football coach (died 1982)
1 May
- Delfim Netto, economist, Minister of Finance, Agriculture and Planning of Brazil, professor and congressman
- Marcelo Pinto Carvalheira, Roman Catholic archbishop (died 2017)
11 May - Dulce Figueiredo, wife of future Brazilian president João Figueiredo (died 2011)
21 June – Fiorella Mari, Brazilian-Italian actress (died 1983)
24 July – Jardel Filho, actor (died 1983)
13 August – Pedro Pedrossian, politician (died 2017)
15 August – Manfredo do Carmo, mathematician (died 2018)
24 September - Aldo Vannucchi, academic
22 October - Nelson Pereira dos Santos, film director (died 2018)^[7]