Ludwik de Laveaux (officer)
Ludwik de Laveaux was a brigadier general of the Polish Army in World War I, World War II and Polish – Soviet War.
He was born on 18 June 1891 in Frysztakua a relative of the painter, Ludwik de Laveaux.
He graduated in 1911 from Krakow University, and then studied architecture at the Technical University of Lwów.
In World War I he served in the Polish legions 1 and 4 in the Lvov region.
Starting a private soldier he was made an officer on 1 April 1916, and in 1917 took command of the" city Defense Command" where they took the main train station in Lviv between 3–4 November 1918.
After the war he was assistant to Chief Executive lomendanta Czesław Mączyński in the peace negotiations.
From June to December 1919 he was a student at the military general staff School Course in Warsaw, but his studies were interrupted by the Polish- Soviet War where he was Chief of staff of the 5th Infantry Division but he resumed his studies from 1921 to 1922 at Doszkolenia Military School in Warsaw.
After graduating he was assigned to the 1st Division as Chief of staff.
In December 1926 he transferred to Warsaw, and in July 1929 he took command of the 2nd Infantry Regiment in Sandomierz.
In January 1936, he was appointed Pułkownik( commander) of the 8th Infantry Division in Modlin, where he was stationed at the outbreak of World War II.
In 1939, de Laveaux fought in the area around Modlin.
His division also served in the Warsaw uprising; his son and daughter survived the Warsaw uprising, in which they fought.
In 1966, August Zaleski promoted de Laveaux to the rank of Brigadier General.
After the war the family moved to live in England where he died on 16 December 1969 in London.
He is buried in the cemetery of South Ealing.
Melchor Múzquiz
Melchor de Eca y Múzquiz (5 January 1790 – 14 December 1844) was a Mexican soldier and politician.
From August to December 1832, he was president of Mexico.
Melchor de Navarra, Duke of Palata
Don Melchor de Navarra y Rocafull," jure uxoris" Duke of Palata, Prince of Massalubrense( sometimes" Melchor de Navarra y Rocaful")( 1626 in Aragón – April 13, 1691 in Portobelo, Panamá) was a Spanish politician.
From November 20, 1681 to August 15, 1689 he was Viceroy of Perú.
Juan José Plans
Juan José Plans Martínez( February 28, 1943, Gijón, Asturias- February 24, 2014, Gijón, Asturias) was a Spanish writer, journalist, and radio and television announcer.
He specialized as a writer in fantasy, horror, and science fiction, and published several collections of short stories and several radio and TV adaptations of classics in these genres.
He was the author of nearly forty books and is on over thirty national and international anthologies, which have been translated into Portuguese, Polish, French, Russian and English.
His novel" El juego de los niños"( roughly meaning" Children's Game") has been adapted for film twice: first as Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's" Who Can Kill a Child?" and later as" Come Out and Play".
Of the" asociación jovellanista", he has written biographies of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and Alejandro Casona.
He was the father of painter Edgar Plans Pérez( b. 1977, in Madrid) who is author of the 2009" Feria Internacional de Muestras de Asturias"( Asturias International Trade Fair) poster.
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos( born Gaspar Melchor de Jove y Llanos, 5 January 1744 – 27 November 1811) was a Spanish neoclassical statesman, author, philosopher and a major figure of the Age of Enlightenment in Spain.
Władysław Mazurkiewicz (serial killer)
Władysław Mazurkiewicz
( January 31, 1911 – January 29, 1957) was a Polish serial killer from the post – World War II Kraków, who also owned property in Warsaw.
His economic standing and polite manners in Stalinist Poland earned him the nickname" the Gentleman Murdererelegancki morderca"), also piękny Władek( the Handsome Władek).
Mazurkiewicz was arrested in 1955 and charged by the prosecution with six murders and two more attempted murders.
He was convicted of killing four men and two women including Wiktor Zarzecki, Władysław Brylski, Józef Tomaszewski, and millionaire Jerzy de Laveaux along with his wife Jadwiga de Laveaux and her sister, Zofia Suchowa.
He was tried by the regional court in Kraków and sentenced to death on August 30, 1956.
He was executed by hanging six months later on January 29, 1957, two days before his 46th birthday.
According to various rumours, Mazurkiewicz might have been responsible for as many as 30 murders, which were never confirmed.
However, he himself pleaded not guilty, and claimed in court to have been beaten and blackmailed during interrogations.
Pedro de Silva
Pedro de Silva Cienfuegos- Jovellanos( born 18 August 1945 Gijón, Spain) is a Spanish politician, lawyer and writer.
He served as the second President of the Principality of Asturias from 17 June 1983, until 10 July 1991.
Pedro de Silva was born 18 August 1945 Gijón, Asturias, Spain.
His father, Pedro de Silva Sierra, a lawyer as well, served as the dean of the Escuela de Práctica Jurídica in Gijón from 1975 until 1990.
His mother, María Jesús Cienfuegos- Jovellanos Vigil- Escalera, died on 9 August 2004, at the age of 85.
De Silva is a direct descendant of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos through his mother's lineage.
Étienne Maynaud de Bizefranc de Laveaux
Étienne Maynaud de Bizefranc de Laveaux( or Mayneaud, Lavaux; 8 August 1751 – 12 May 1828) was a French general who was Governor of Saint- Domingue from 1793 to 1796 during the French Revolution.
He ensured that the law that freed the slaves was enforced, and supported the black leader Toussaint Louverture, who later established the independent republic of Haiti.
After the Bourbon Restoration he was Deputy for Saône- et- Loire from 1820 to 1823.
José Baquíjano y Carrillo, Count of Vistaflorida
José Javier de Baquíjano y Carrillo de Córdoba, III Count of Vistaflorida( March 12, 1751, Lima, Peru—January 24, 1817, Seville, Spain) was a Spanish/ Peruvian economist and jurist, writer and politician, and one of the first great intellectuals of the Viceroyalty of Peru.
He was the second son of Juan Bautista de Baquíjano y Urigoen, I Count of Vistaflorida, and María Ignacia Carrillo de Córdova y Garcés de Mansilla.
Baquíjano inherited the Vistaflorida title from his older brother in 1809, becoming 3rd Count of Vistaflorida.
Baquíjano earned a doctorate in law from the University of San Marcos in Lima.
In 1773- 76 he traveled to Spain, where he met Pablo de Olavide and Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos.
Upon his return to Peru, he took on the task of protector of the Indigenous, and became a professor of law.
Melchor de Mediavilla y Azcona
Melchor de Mediavilla y Azcona was the acting governor of Texas between 1727 and 1731.

Question: Were Étienne Maynaud De Bizefranc De Laveaux and Gaspar Melchor De Jovellanos of the same nationality?
Answer: no