Ferit Vokopola, politician, theologian, translator, organizer of the Lushnja Congress and one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence in Vlora on November 28th, 1912, died in Durrës.
In Frasnita (it. Frascineto) in Calabria, in Italy, Emanuele Giordano, researcher, was born, one of the most important personalities of Arberesh culture.