In Partinico, Italy, afflicted by an illness that caused him to go blind, Gjergj Guzzeta, the founder of the Greek-Albanian Seminary of Palermo, passed away in 1734.
In Quatre, Belgium, Gjergj Dhimitër Basta (1550–1607), a strategist, military theorist, and general of European and global fame, originally from the Arbëresh community of Italy, passed away.