In August 1914, the actor Seit Boshnjaku was born in Shkodër. The contribution to art started with the cultural societies “Vllaznia” /Brotherhood/ and “Shkëndia” /The Spark/. He was first introduced to the Army Theater and then in 1949 to the People’s Theater. Boshnjaku performed over 50 roles on the stage of the National Theater and in 7 feature movies. He passed away in 1985.

On August 6, 1915, Geraldine Apony, Queen Geraldine of Albania was born in an aristocratic Hungarian family. She married King Zog I on April 27, 1938. After leaving the country in 1939, as a result of the fascist invasion of the country, Queen Geraldine would return to Albania in June 2002. She passed away in Tirana at the age of 87 on October 22, 2002.

On August 6, 1993, Esat Mekuli, the first and most famous poet of Kosova after WWII, passed away in Prishtina. He was born in Plava of Montenegro, on December 17, 1916. Since early on, he stood out for his progressive views and as an opponent of the Jugoslav regime of the time, for which he was imprisoned three times. Editor in the only Albanian newspaper Rilindja, and then founder of the literary magazine Jeta e Re /The New Life/, he was ‘baptized’ as the bard of Albanian literature in Kosova and farther. Esat Mekuli was the first president of the Writers Association of Kosova, initiator, and the founder and first president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosova.

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