In Konica (today in Greece), Faik Konica was born a writer, literary critic, publicist, and essayist, one of the most prominent personalities of Albanian culture and literature.
Fadil Hoxha was born in Gjakova, political activist of Kosova and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, participant and leader of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War in Kosova, Hero of the People (Yugoslavia)
In the "Albert Einstein" hospital, in New York, Monsignor Zef Oroshi (Çoku), senior catholic cleric, bishop, founder of the first Albanian catholic church in the USA, Our Lady of Good Counsel (Bronx, New York), publisher, translator, passed away.