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Drita Pelinku, an actress, director, educator, and Distinguished Artist, passed away.

Robert Elsie, an Albanologist, translator, and writer, passed away.

In Tirana, Shefqet Beja, a political activist, Deputy Chairman of the National Liberation Front, and a member of the first legislature (1945), was executed by hanging.

In New York (USA), Mithat Frashëri, a political activist, writer, publicist, and translator (also known by the pseudonyms Lumo Skëndo and Mali Kokojka), passed away.

Zaho Balili was born in Rexhin, Kurvelesh.

Nuhi Berisha, an activist of the illegal movement, was born in Svircë, Kamenica (Kosovo).

Francesco Crispi, an Italian political and state personality of Arbëresh origin, was born in Ribera (Sicily).

The agreement of Ismail Qemal's government for the establishment of the National Bank of Albania was concluded with Karol Pitner and Oskar Pollak, representatives of Wienner Bank Verein, which operated on behalf of the Austro-Hungarian banking group, and with Pietro Fenolio and Guido Ansbaher, representatives of Banca Commerciale Italiana, which operated on behalf of the Italian banking group.

In New York (USA), Sten Dragoti, an Albanian-American director and producer, was born into a family that had emigrated from Dragoti of Tepelena.

In Bologna (Italy), Luigi Maria Ugolini (1895–1936), an Italian archaeologist, passed away.