Gregorio Bezerra, politician, communist leader and former sergeant of the Brazilian Army, was born on 13 March 1900, at a small farm named Mocóin the municipality of Panelas de Miranda, Pernambuco. The son of impoverished and illiterate peasants, he was hungry.

Francisco do Rego Barros, Baron, Viscountandlater Countof Boa Vista, was born on 3 February 1802, in the town of Cabo, on the Trapiche Sugarcane Plantation owned by his parents, Francisco do Rego Barros, Colonel in the Militias,and Mariana Francisca de Paula do Rego Barros.