Popular poet and singer João Melchíades Ferreira da Silva was born in Bananeiras, Paraíba, on 7 September 1869.

Joaquim Maria Moreira Cardozo, structural engineer of many public palaces in Brasília and one of the greatest poets in Brazilian literature, was born on 26 August 1897 inRecife, to José Antônio Cardozo and Elvira Moreira Cardozo.

The writer, poet, doctor, painter and translator Jorge Mateus de Lima was born on 23 April 1893, in the municipality of União dos Palmares, Alagoas, the region where the Quilombo dos Palmares existed.

The popular poet Leandro Gomes de Barros was born on ‘Fazenda Melancia’ (Watermelon Farm), in the municipality of Pombal, Paraíba, on 19 November 1865.

Journalist, writer, poet, orator and novelist Manoel Arão de Oliveira Campos was born on 11 January to José Matheus Coimbra de Campos and Francisca Joaquina de Oliveira Campos in the city of Afogados da Ingazeira, in the semi-arid region of Pajeú, Pernambuco.