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Lorenc Antoni, a composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, and choir conductor, passed away in Pristina (Kosovo).

Marie Shllaku, an activist of the anti-communist movement, was born in Shkodër.

The Corfu Channel Incident: Two British ships navigating through Albanian territorial waters near the Corfu Channel struck mines, resulting in the deaths of 43 British soldiers and officers due to the explosions, while an equal number were injured.

Monsignor Frano Illia, a high-ranking Catholic cleric, Metropolitan Archbishop of Shkodër (1993–1997), ethnographer, and translator, passed away.

Geraldinë Zogu (Geraldine Apponyi), the queen of the Albanians who was crowned through a civil marriage to the King of the Albanians, Ahmet Zogu, passed away in Tirana. She was married on April 27, 1938.

Demetrio Camarda, an Arbëresh linguist and philologist, as well as a cleric, was born in Hora e Arbëreshëve (it. Piana degli Albanesi) in Sicily.

Franz Bopp, a German linguist, Albanologist, the principal founder of historical comparative Indo-European linguistics, and a professor at the University of Berlin, passed away in Berlin, Germany.

Gjergj Fishta, a poet, high cleric, aesthetician, politician, polemicist, and playwright, was born in Fishtë of Zadrima.

Simon Rrota, a painter and a distinguished artist, was born in Shkodër.

The first Albanian school for girls was opened in Korçë.