Tiradentes

Tiradentes

male, deceased (1792)
Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes, was part of the Brazilian seditious movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira. Born in Sao Jo...
Augusto de Lima

Augusto de Lima

male, deceased (1934)
Antônio Augusto de Lima was a Brazilian journalist, poet, musician, magistrate, jurist, professor and politician. He was born in Congonhas de S...
Chico Rei

Chico Rei

male
Chico Rei is a semi-mythic heroic figure from the slave trade in Brazil. In about 1740, Galanga, a tribal leader from the Congo, was taken along...

Tomás Antônio Gonzaga

male, deceased (1809)
Tomás Antônio Gonzaga was a Luso-Brazilian poet. A native of Oporto, Gonzaga was son of a Brazilian-born judge and an English mother. He spent a pa...
Alphonsus de Guimaraens

Alphonsus de Guimaraens

male, deceased (1921)
Afonso Henriques da Costa Guimarães is an important Brazilian writer, whose Alphonsus de Guimaraens is a pseudonym. He was born in Ouro Preto c...
Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena

Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena

male, deceased (1909)
Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena was a Brazilian politician, president between 1906 and 1909. Before his political career, Pena was a lawyer, jurist and...
Johann Moritz Rugendas

Johann Moritz Rugendas

male, deceased (1858)
Johann Moritz Rugendas (b. March 29, 1802, Augsburg, Germany; d. May 29, 1858), Weilheim, Germany), was a German painter, famous for his works...

Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke

male, deceased (1904)
Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke was a German botanist, explorer and naturalist. Born at Alfeld, near Hannover, Germany, Schwacke studied Natural...

Yuliana Glinka

female, deceased (1918)
Yuliana Dmitrievna Glinka (1844- 1918) was a Russian occultist born to a prominent family in Orel, Russia. Her grandfather, Colonel Feodor...