Monsigor Ernest M. Çoba, a high-ranking Catholic cleric, Secretary General of the Presidency of the Catholic Church of Albania, and Chairman of the Catholic Church of Albania (1957), was born in Laç of Vau i Dejës, where his family, one of the oldest in Shkodra, had settled during the siege of the city by the Montenegrins.
Lazër Lumezi, an activist for national education in the Kosovo region, a methodologist of the Albanian language, author of school texts, ethnographer, folklorist, and poet, was born in Prizren.
In Boston, United States, the first issue of the newspaper "Dielli" was published. It served as a political, social, literary, cultural, economic, and educational publication, with some articles being printed in English.
The first issue of the "Revista letrare" was published in Tirana, under the leadership of its founding writers: Mitrush Kuteli, Vedat Kokona, Sterjo Spasse, and Nexhat Hakiu.