Nimete Progonati (1929–1944), participant of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, People's Heroine, was killed in the war against the German Nazis, in Sinjë of Dibra.
Azem Bejta - Galica, a fighter in the anti-Ottoman movement and leader of armed groups against Serbia and Montenegro after 1912, passed away from wounds sustained in battle.
Mitro Xhani, participant of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, Hero of the People, was killed in the war against the German Nazis and their collaborators, in Dukaj of Tepelena.
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.
