Olimpio Bonald Neto da Cunha Pedrosa, a lawyer, journalist, folklorist, writer, poet and painter, was born in Olinda on 7 October 1932. He graduated in Law and Social Sciences from the Recife Faculty of Law in 1957.

The Pernambuco writer Osman da Costa Lins, son of Teófanes da Costa Lins and Maria da Paz de Mello Lins, was born in the city of Vitória de Santo Antão on 5 July 1924. His mother died from complications of the birth when Osman was only 16 days old.

Renato Accioly Carneiro Campos – essayist, journalist and writer – was born on 8 March 1930 in the city of Jaboatão dos Guararapes, in the state of Pernambuco, to Fernando Carneiro R. Campos and Maria do Carmo Accioly Campos.

Sylvio de Lyra Rabello was born in the city of Aliança, Pernambuco, on 29 November 1899, to the merchant Heliodoro de Paula Ferreira Rabello and schoolteacher Joaquina Gomes de Lyra.

Waldemar de Figueiredo Valente, doctor, pharmacist, anthropologist, sociologist, ethnologist, teacher, researcher, writer and humourist, was born on 9 February 1908, on the Conceição St in the neighbourhood of Boa Vista, in central Recife, to poet and journalist Samuel da Silva Valente and Orminda d