On July 30, 1932, the actor and director Kujtim Spahivogli was born in Lushnja. His first role on the stage of the National Theater was that of Dzerzhinsky in the drama “The Kremlin Hours”, and then came a series of other roles. He worked and became famous also as a director. He has staged the plays: “The weird”, “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, “In the storm”, “The House on the Boulevard”, “Drita”, and “The Carnivals of Korça”. Kujtim Spahivogli is the founder of Artistic Word. In the year 1973 he had to leave the theater world on political reasons. He passed away on July 7, 1987. He was awarded the title “People’s Artist”, post-mortem.

On July 30, 1946, the writer, poet, prose writer, journalist Skënder Temali was born in the city of Shkodër.

On July 30, 1975, Dr. Paulin Margjokaj passed away. He remained faithful to his ideal in the Franciscan tradition. He was born in the village of Kçira in the area of Shkodër on September 26, 1908. In 1925 he entered the Order of Albanian friars and was ordained a priest. He worked as a history and geography teacher at the Illyricum High School. Because of the arrival of the communist regime in power, he did not return to his homeland, but lived in Vienna and Graz, Austria.

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