** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.

** Breanne Benson, Albanian pornographic actress

** Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, dies ( b. 1910 )

** Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer

** Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure ( d. 1965 )

** Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer and actress

** Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman ( b. 1416 )

** Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman ( d. 1470 )

** Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church

** Paloke Kurti, Albanian composer ( b. 1860 )

** Albanian ministries

** Albanian Resistance of World War II-the Partisans of Albania during World War II

** Albanian cuisine

** Albanian Linguistics

** Albanian Literature

** Albanian Baptist Union

** from PIE * pizda (" vulva "), cf Lithuanian " pizda " and Albanian " pidh ".

** Ramazan Rragami, former Albanian football ( soccer ) player

** 20px Albanian Cup: 15

** Albanian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Hungarian, Italo-Albanian, Macedonian, Melkite, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian, Slovak, Ukrainian Rite

** Albanian with cibuk ( 1884-1886.

** Karam Bey ( Albanian )

** Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary to India ( b. 1867 )

** Paul Olaf Bodding, Norwegian missionary to India and creator of Santali Latin alphabet ( d. 1938 )

** Metropolitan Benjamin ( Fedchenkov ), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America ( b. 1880 )

** Pedro Páez, Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia ( d. 1622 )

** Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña, Spanish missionary and explorer ( d. 1676 )

** Metropolitan Benjamin ( Fedchenkov ), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America ( d. 1961 )

** Giulio Alenio, Italian Jesuit missionary ( d. 1649 )

** Francisco Álvares, Portuguese missionary and explorer ( d. 1541 )

** Edmund Peck, Canadian missionary ( d. 1924 )

** Saint Vincent Pallotti, Italian missionary ( b. 1795 )

** Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary ( d. 1678 )

** Saint Turibius de Mongrovejo, Spanish Grand Inquisitioner and missionary Archbishop of Lima ( b. 1538 )

** Charles Albanel, French missionary ( d. 1696 )

** Thomas Stephens, Jesuit missionary ( b. c. 1549 )

** September 8 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary ( d. 1444 )

** Andrew Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary and martyr ( d. 1657 )

** Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary to China ( d. 1666 )

** Pierre Biard, French settler and Jesuit missionary ( d. 1622 )

** Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary ( b. 1591 )

** Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary ( d. 1791 )

** Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary ( d. 1613 )

** Luís Fróis, Portuguese missionary ( d. 1597 )

** Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary ( d. 1590 )