Agnia Vasilevna Desnickaja, a Russian linguist, professor, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, and Albanologist, was born.
The first issue of the newspaper “Përlindja e Shqipërisë” ("Birth of Albania") was published in Vlora (1913 to 1914), making it one of the first newspapers of the independent Albanian state.
Ihsan bey Toptani, the son of Abdi bey Toptani, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and Minister of Finance in Ismail Qemali's Provisional Government in 1912, was born in Tirana.