The first issue of the newspaper “Përlindja e Shqipërisë” ("Birth of Albania") was published in Vlora (1913 to 1914), making it one of the first newspapers of the independent Albanian state.
Agnia Vasilevna Desnickaja, a Russian linguist, professor, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, and Albanologist, was born.
Hydajet Lezha, a participant in the National Anti-Fascist Liberation War and a People's Hero, was killed in battle against the forces of Gjon Marka Gjoni in Vig, Mirdita.
In Pejë, Kosovo, Ali Kelmendi was born, a fighter for national liberation in Kosovo, an activist of the democratic communist and antifascist movement in Albania, and a People's Hero.
