Glauber de Andrade Rocha, Brazilian cineaste, one of the leaders of ‘cinema novo’ (new cinema), the avant-garde movement, was responsible for a large renovation of Brazilian cinema in the 1960s. He was one of the most polemic creators of national cinema.

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.

On 27 October 1892, at what was then 11 Nova Street in Quebrangulo,  Alagoas, Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira was born. His parents were Maria Amélia Ferro Ramos and Sebastião Ramos de Oliveira.

Son of an English businessman from Liverpool, John Theodore Koster, Henry Koster was born in Lisbon, Portugal. The correct date of his birth is unknown, but his arrival in Recife, on 7 September 1809, states he was 25 years old.

Writer, novelist and playwright, Hermilo Borba Carvalho Filho was born on 8 July 1917,on the Verde Plantation in the municipality of Palmares, in the Southern Forest Zone of Pernambuco, to Hermilo Borba Carvalho and Irinéa Portela de Carvalho.