Lost Faces on iPhoto

In this case i lost 18300+ faces ? Need to know why befor i pull any more hair out. iPad 1st, Mac Mini and iPhone 4s
I put my iPad 2nd in airport mode so the faces are still there!

This also happened to me, coincidentally around mid-May as well, but I only just realised today. It's likely the database for Faces got corrupted so iPhoto just deletes it and starts again.
Do you have Time Machine or other methods of backup? If you do, you can restore the Faces database from a backup before it got corrupted. I'll explain how to restore from Time Machine:
Make sure you have quit iPhoto.
Get Time Machine to do a back up in case things go wrong in the following steps.
Go into Time Machine while in Finder
Navigate to the your ~/Pictures/ folder (or where ever your iPhoto library is store). You should see your iPhoto Library file there.
Right click the iPhoto Library file and select "Show Package Contents." This will reveal the files inside.
Inside the iPhoto Library, go into the ./Database/Faces/FaceNames/ folder. It should be empty if there are no Faces in iPhoto, otherwise, there should be a *.apfacename file for each person you have named in Faces.
Go back through your backups from the most recent until you see the *.apfacename files in this folder, this should be the backup you should restore from.
Go back up to the ./Database/ folder, select the Faces folder and restore it from the backup, choosing to overwriting the folder if prompted to do so.
Go back into the iPhoto Library in Time Machine, in the same backup as before. This time, open the ./Database/apdb/ folder. You should see a file called Faces.db. Select that file, and restore it from the backup, again choosing to overwrite the existing file if prompted.
Launch iPhoto again and all your Faces should be restored without losing any new photos you've added since you lost the Faces.
If you don't have backups, sorry you'll have to start identifying all the Faces again from scratch. But keep in mind, always have backups of your important data, you never know when something could go wrong!

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