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

José de Souza Dantas Filho, known as Zé Dantas or Zedantas, as he used to sign, was born in the municipality of Carnaíba de Flores, Sertão do Alto Pajeú in Pernambuco on 27 February 1921.