Events in the year 2014 in Brazil.
December
- 10 December: 26 year old Sailson José das Graças is arrested for the serial murder as many as 41 people in a string of suspected racist hate crimes.[15]
Brazil hosted the 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2014 Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship, the 2014 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship and the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.
In international multi-sport events, Brazil participated in the Winter Olympics, in the Winter Paralympics and also in the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.
For events in football (soccer), see 2014 in Brazilian football.
For motorsport, see 2014 Campeonato Brasileiro de Turismo season, 2014 Desafio Internacional das Estrelas, 2014 Fórmula 3 Brasil season, 2014 Formula 3 Brazil Open, 2014 Fórmula Truck season, 2014 Brasileiro de Marcas season and 2014 Stock Car Brasil season.
Other sport events include the 2014 Brasil Open and the UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Mousasi.
March
- March 6: Sérgio Guerra, 66, economist and politician, member of the Federal Senate (2003–2011).[21]
- March 13: Paulo Goulart, 81, actor, cancer.[22]
- March 20: Hilderaldo Bellini, 83, footballer, two-time World Cup winner (1958, 1962), complications from a heart attack.[23]
- March 24: Paulo Schroeber, 40, guitarist (Almah), heart failure.[24]
April
- April 3: Pedro Fré, 89, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Corumbá (1985–1989) and Barretos (1989–2000).[25]
- April 5: José Wilker, 66, actor (Medicine Man) and director, heart attack.[26]
- April 12: Maurício Alves Peruchi, 24, footballer, traffic collision.[27]
- April 17: Henry Maksoud, 85, businessman, cardiac arrest.[28]
- April 19: Luciano do Valle, 66, sports commentator.[29]
- April 25: Paulo Malhães, 76-77, soldier.[30]
- April 26:
May
- May 2: Tomás Balduino, 91, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Goiás (1967–1998).[33]
- May 8:
- May 10: Yeso Amalfi, 88, footballer (Olympique de Marseille).[36]
- May 11: Celso Pereira de Almeida, 86, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Nacional (1976–1995) and Itumbiara (1995–1998).[37]
- May 13: Altamiro Rossato, 88, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Marabá (1985–1989), Archbishop of Porto Alegre (1991–2001).[38]
- May 21: João Filgueiras Lima, 82, architect, prostate cancer.[39]
- May 23: Joel Camargo, 67, footballer (Santos), renal failure.[40]
- May 25: Washington César Santos, 54, footballer (national team), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[41]
- May 28: Ciro de Quadros, 74, physician, cancer.[42]
- May 31: Marinho Chagas, 62, footballer (Botafogo, national team), gastrointestinal bleeding.[43]
June
- June 7:
- June 10:
- June 14: Alex Chandre de Oliveira, 36, footballer (Hangzhou Greentown), heart attack.[48]
- June 15: Moise Safra, 79, Syrian-born Brazilian billionaire financier, founder and chairman of Banco Safra, Parkinson's disease.[49]
- June 18: Márcio Moreira, 67, advertising executive.[50]
- June 20: Oberdan Cattani, 95, footballer (Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras).[51]
- June 21:
- June 26: Moacyr José Vitti, 73, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Curitiba (since 2004), heart attack.[54]
- June 27: Amaro Macedo, 100, botanist and plant collector.[55]
July
- July 6: Benedito de Assis da Silva, 61, footballer (Fluminense), multiple organ failure.[56]
- July 7: Estanislau Amadeu Kreutz, 86, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santo Ângelo (1973–2004), multiple organ failure.[57]
- July 8: Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, 83, jurist and politician, bone cancer.[58]
- July 9: Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes, 63, geologist and mineral dealer.[59]
- July 14: Vange Leonel, 51, singer, writer, feminist and LGBT activist, ovarian cancer.[60]
- July 18: João Ubaldo Ribeiro, 73, writer, pulmonary embolism.[61]
- July 19:
- July 23: Ariano Suassuna, 87, writer, cardiac arrest as a complication from a stroke.[64]
- July 25: Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourão, 79, astronomer.[65]
- July 26: Spiridon Mattar, 93, Lebanese-born Brazilian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo (1978–1990).[66]
- July 30: Fausto Fanti, 35, humorist (Hermes & Renato) and guitarist (Massacration), suicide by hanging.[67]
August
- August 3: Benedito de Ulhôa Vieira, 93, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Uberaba (1978–1996).[68]
- August 11: Djalma Cavalcante, 57, football player and coach, heart attack.[69]
- August 11: Armando Círio, 98, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cascavel (1978–1995).[70]
- August 13: Eduardo Campos, 49, politician, Minister of Science and Technology (2004–2005), Governor of Pernambuco (2007–2014), 2014 presidential candidate, plane crash.[71]
- August 24: Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, 86, businessman, CEO of the Votorantim Group, heart failure.[72]
September
- September 1: Sérgio Rodrigues, 86, architect and designer.[73]
- September 11: Jerônimo Garcia de Santana, 79, politician, Governor of Rondônia (1987–1991), Mayor of Porto Velho (1986).[74]
- September 13: Iberê Ferreira, 70, politician, Governor of Rio Grande do Norte (2010–2011).[75]
- September 14: Servílio Conti, 97, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Roraima (1965–1975).[76]
- September 30: Jadir Ambrósio, 91, musician and composer.[77]