Luiz Viana Filho was born on 28 March 1908 in Paris, but was registered in the Distrito da Sé, Salvador, Bahia, to Councillor Luiz Viana, president of the Province of Bahia (1896-1900) and Senator of the Republic (1911-1920), and Joana Gertrudes Fichtner.

Manoel Antonio Pereira Borba was born on the Paquivira Plantation, near the municipality of Tiambaúba, Pernambuco, on 19 March 1864.

On 3 August 1922, at Engenho Jundiá in Vicência, Pernambuco, Manoel Correia de Oliveira Andrade was born. His parents were Joaquim Correia Xavier de Andrade (plantation master and cattle rancher) and Zulmira Azevedo Correia de Andrade.

José Izidoro de Martins Junior was born in Recife, Pernambuco, on 24 November 1860, to José Isidoro Martins and Francisca Emilia de Oliveira Martins.

José Francisco de Moura Cavalcanti, lawyer, administrator, politician, orator and Pernambuco memoirist, descendent from a traditional aristocratic family from Pernambuco Northern Forest Zone’s sugarcane region, also with a grand political tradition.