Eraldo Gueiros Leite was born on 18 January 1912, in the city of Canhotinho, Pernambuco, to José Ferreira Leite and Amélia Gueiros Leite.

On 22 October 1872, on the Tentugal plantation in Barreiros, Pernambuco, Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra was born. He was the first son of João Coimbra.

Francisco Julião Arruda de Paula was born on 16 February 1915, in the Municipality of Bom Jardim, in Pernambuco, and spent his childhood on the Boa Esperança, or Espera, farm.

Maranhão writer José Pereira da Graça Aranha was born in São Luís on 21 June 1868, the son of Themistocles da Silva Maciel Aranha and Maria da Glória da Graça.

João Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque was born in Umbuzeiro, Paraíba, on 24 January 1878.