Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão (11 January 1864 – Paris, 12 May 1902) was a Brazilian politician, journalist, inventor and aeronaut.

On 12 May 1902 he died, together with his French mechanic, Georges Saché, when they were flying over Paris in an airship called Pax.

A marble plaque at number 81 of the Avenue du Maine in Paris, commemorates the location of Augusto Severo accident.

[1][2] The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax" is a 1902 short silent film recreation of the wreck.

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