Federal government edit

• President: Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
• Vice President: Afonso Pena

Governors edit

• Alagoas: Antônio Máximo da Cunha Rego (till 1 November), Antônio Máximo da Cunha Rego (from 1 November)
• Amazonas: Antônio Constantino Néri
• Bahia: José Marcelino de Sousa
• Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
• Goiás:
  • until July 14: José Xavier de Almeida
  • from July 14: Miguel da Rocha Lima
• Maranhão: Manuel Lopes da Cunha
• Mato Grosso: Antônio Pais de Barros
• Minas Gerais: Francisco Salles
• Pará: Augusto Montenegro
• Paraíba:
  • until 28 October: Álvaro Lopes Machado
  • from 28 October: Valfredo Leal
• Paraná: Vicente Machado da Silva Lima
• Pernambuco: Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves
• Piauí: Álvaro de Assis Osório Mendes
• Rio Grande do Norte: Augusto Tavares Lira
• Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors edit

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

• 5 February - The football club Clube do Remo is established in Belém.
• 30 December - Law no. 1452 is passed by the National Congress of Brazil, authorizing expenditure of £4,214,550 for new warship construction (£1,685,820 in 1906).^[1]

Books edit

• Lima Barreto - O Subterrâneo do Morro do Castelo

• 8 February - Preguinho, footballer (died 1979)
• 15 February - Waldemar Henrique, pianist and composer (died 1995)
• 11 May - Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald, admiral (died 1985)
• 10 August - Evandro Chagas, physician and biomedical scientist (died 1940)
• 17 December - Erico Verissimo, writer (died 1975)

• 29 January - José do Patrocínio, writer, journalist, activist, orator and pharmacist (born 1854; suffered hemoptysis just after making a speech in honour of Alberto Santos-Dumont)^[2]
• 22 September - Suresh Biswas, Indian adventurer (born 1861;

• 1905 in Brazilian football