Themo Vasi, a communist movement activist, participant in the National Anti-Fascist Liberation War, and a People's Hero, was killed in battle against the German Nazis in the Golem Mountains (Gjirokastër).
In Tirana, Shefqet Beja, a political activist, Deputy Chairman of the National Liberation Front, and a member of the first legislature (1945), was executed by hanging.
In New York (USA), Mithat Frashëri, a political activist, writer, publicist, and translator (also known by the pseudonyms Lumo Skëndo and Mali Kokojka), passed away.