Spartak Ngjela, a lawyer, politician, Minister of Justice in the Government of National Reconciliation, Chairman of the Commission for Legal Affairs, Public Administration, and Human Rights, was born in Tirana.
Dom Mark Gjani, clergyman, martyr of the Catholic Church, was born in Saint George of Montenegro, which at that time belonged to the Diocese of Shkodra.
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.