Elvira Pagã

Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino, better known by her stage name Elvira Pagã, was a Brazilian vedette and actress, singer, writer and painter. She was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the first woman to wear a bikini in public, and one of the first women to have cosmetic surgery in Brazil. Talented and controversial, she broke the status quo and faced the reigning "machismo" with fearless audacity during the Brazilian military dictatorship and the revolutionary 1960s, where she lived with determination and courage. Pagã retired from public life, wrote and painted in her later years, dying a recluse.

6 September 1920

Born on the same birth day (6 September): Frances Wright • Greg Rusedski • Guillaume Dubois • Jackie Trent • Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. • Joseph Yobo • José Sócrates • Maurice Prather • Prince Claus of the Netherlands • Roger Law • Scott Travis • Sergio Aragonés • St. John Richardson Liddell • Steven Yearley • Terry Bickers • The Barbarian (wrestler) • William Lane

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