Geraldine Zogu (Geraldine Apponyi), queen of the Albanians, was born in Budapest, Hungary. She was crowned queen through a civil marriage to King Ahmet Zogu of Albania in Tirana on April 27, 1938.
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.
