-On February 19, 1465, the humanist, Albanian diplomat, Gjon Gazulli, passed away at the age of 65 in Raguza. He was ambassador of Ragusa in the Holy See. Gjon Gazuli was one of the most distinguished personalities of the European science of the XV century.

-On February 19, 1879, Luigj Gurakuqi was born in Shkodër. As Minister of Education in the Provisional Government of Vlora of 1912, he established the compulsory primary education for boys and girls. In the government headed by Fan S. Noli, coming out from the June Democratic Bourgeois of June 1924, he was the Minister of Finance. After the suppression of the Revolution, he went to Italy, where on March 2, 1925 he was treacherously murdered.

-On February 19, 1946, the clergyman Anton Harapi passed away. He was born in Shkodër in 1868. He was educated in the colleges of his hometown and in Italy. In October 1943, he was elected a member of the High Council of the Regency. He worked as a clergyman, but taking up poetry was his desire and second nature. At the age of 78, he was shot by the communist regime.

-On February 19, 2007, the oldest priest of the Diocese of Sapa, Monsignor Injac Dema, passed away at the age of 82. He was born in Shkodër on May 23, 1925. He was ordained a priest on December 8, 1958. After the reopening of the churches in 1991, Don Injac restarted his religious mission. On May 21, 2002, Pope John Paul II gave him the title “Honorary Prelate of His Holiness”.

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