Geraldinë Zogu (Geraldine Apponyi), the queen of the Albanians who was crowned through a civil marriage to the King of the Albanians, Ahmet Zogu, passed away in Tirana. She was married on April 27, 1938.
Franz Bopp, a German linguist, Albanologist, the principal founder of historical comparative Indo-European linguistics, and a professor at the University of Berlin, passed away in Berlin, Germany.
Abdyl Frashëri, the ideator and one of the main leaders of the Albanian League of Prizren, as well as a politician and diplomat, passed away in Istanbul.
Muzafer Asqeriu, participant in the communist movement and in the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, Hero of the People, was killed in the war with the Italian forces.
