* 1890 – Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author ( d. 1954 )

* 1938 – Jô Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality

His work had also noticeable influence over Brazilian author Machado de Assis, who made exceptional ( and outstandingly original ) usage of the digressive technique in the masterful novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas.

* 1881 – Lima Barreto, Brazilian author ( d. 1922 )

* 1971 – Andre Matos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and author ( Viper, Angra, Shaman, and Symfonia )

* September 29 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author ( b. 1839 )

* August 10 – Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian author ( d. 2001 )

** Zélia Gattai, Brazilian author and photographer ( d. 2008 )

* December 7 – Rodrigo Augusto da Silva, Brazilian Senator and author of the Golden Law ( d. 1889 )

* October 17 – Rodrigo Augusto da Silva, Brazilian Senator and author of the Golden Law ( b. 1833 )

* June 21 – Machado de Assis, Brazilian author ( d. 1908 )

** António Vieira arrives, with his parents, in Bahia ( present-day Salvador ) in colonial Brazil, an unpromising beginning for his great career as a diplomat, noted author, leading figure of the Church, and protector of Brazilian Indians in an age of intolerance.

* Dalton Trevisan, Brazilian author of short stories

Brazilian author Ruy Castro wrote a biography of Carmen Miranda entitled Carmen, published in 2005 in Brazil.

* Aleph, a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho

* August 23-Nelson Rodrigues, Brazilian author ( died 1980 )

* November 17-Rachel de Queiroz, Brazilian author ( died 2003 )

* March 15 — Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian author ( died 1987 )

And, despite the love of Peter I of Brazil for the music – he was also author of some musical pieces like the Brazilian Independence Anthem – the difficult financial situation didn't allow many luxuries.

He was the author of the Brazilian National Anthem's melody.

In his book Bossa Nova, Brazilian author Ruy Castro asserts that " bossa " was already in use in the 1950s by musicians as a word to characterize someone's knack for playing or singing idiosyncratically.

Hugo Cores, a former Uruguayan political prisoner who was living in São Paulo at the time of the kidnapping and was the author of the anonymous phone call to Cunha, spoke the following to the Brazilian press in 1993: " All the Uruguayans kidnapped abroad, around 180 people, are missing to this day.

Marcelo Cassaro ( born August 15, 1970 ) is a Brazilian author of comics, RPGs and the sci-fi book Sword of the Galaxy ( Espada da Galáxia ).

Martel also stated that his inspiration for the book's premise came from reading a book review of Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar's 1981 novella Max and the Cats, about a Jewish-German refugee who crossed the Atlantic Ocean while sharing his boat with a jaguar.

* 1969 – Paulo Jr., Brazilian musician ( Sepultura )

* Paulo Afonso Evangelista Vieira, Brazilian politician.

The Foch upon entering service with the Brazilian Navy, was renamed the São Paulo.

In Northeastern Brazil and among the diaspora of its population in other Brazilian regions, cuzcuz ( locally, in Rio de Janeiro, in São Paulo ), a steamed cake of couscous and corn flour ( a mixture called fubá, pronounced, said to be of African origin from the slave trade ), is a popular meal, served in many forms: With sugar and milk, with varied meats, with cheese and eggs, and so on.

* 2007 – The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch ( 1904 ), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.

* 1949 – Paulo César Carpegiani, Brazilian footballer and coach

* 1932 – The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution

* 1949 – Paulo Cézar Caju, Brazilian footballer

* 1985 – Paulo Vitor Barreto, Brazilian footballer

* 1932 – Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist ( d. 2010 )

* 1978 – Paulo Musse, Brazilian footballer

* 1932 – In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian ditactor Getúlio Vargas, which occurred in the city of São Paulo.

The album was discussed by Gillian Gilbert in a Brazilian interview to promote the band ’ s appearance in São Paulo.

* 1953 – Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer

It is said that the first Brazilian pizzas were baked in the Brás district of São Paulo in the early part of the 20th century.

* 1921 – Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, philosopher, and theorist ( d. 1997 )

SignWriting is also being used in the recently published Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary containing more than 3, 600 signs used by the Deaf of São Paulo, published by the University of São Paulo under the direction of Prof. Fernando Capovilla ( EJ669813 – Brazilian Sign Language Lexicography and Technology: Dictionary, Digital Encyclopedia, Chereme-based Sign Retrieval, and Quadriplegic Deaf Communication Systems.

* October 31 – A Brazilian TAM Fokker airliner crashes into a densely populated area of São Paulo, killing 103.

** Paulo Miklos, Brazilian singer and actor

* October 1 – Jean Paulo Fernandes, Brazilian footballer

* Martin Afonso de Souza's expedition patrols the Brazilian coast, banishes the French, and creates the first colonial towns: São Vicente and São Paulo.

The Brazilian highways Rodovia dos Imigrantes and Rodovia Anchieta connect São Paulo to the Atlantic coast.