• Painter Cândido Portinari dies in Rio de Janeiro (RJ).

Cândido Portinari. [Retrato de Radamés] 1933. Charcoal on paper, 30.5 x 24.4. (Radamés Gnattali Collection)

• Raphael Rabello (Raphael Batista Rabello) was born in Petrópolis (RJ), one of the members of Camerata Carioca [1], with whom Radamés recorded the 1982 Lp
  Tribute to Garoto
  by the FUNARTE label, with artistic production by Hermínio Bello de Carvalho.

• Radamés composes:
  • Concertino No. 2 for piano and chamber orchestra

• In August, the show Encontro will premiere, bringing together for the first and only time Tom Jobim, João Gilberto, and Vinicius de Moraes, with the participation of the vocal group Os Cariocas, at the nightclub Au Bon Gourmet , in Rio de Janeiro.
• On November 21st, at Carnegie Hall, New York (USA), the legendary Bossa Nova concert takes place, with the participation of the main stars of the movement: João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Carlos Lyra, Sérgio Ricardo, among others.
• The film The Keeper of Promises, by Anselmo Duarte, wins the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
• The Brazilian team wins the World Cup for the second time, in Chile.
• First album released Beatles.