Sport

• January–February – 1924 Winter Olympics
  1924 Winter Olympics
  The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France...
  
   held in Chamonix
  Chamonix
  Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics...
  
  , in which the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was represented by a delegation of four sportsmen
  Yugoslavia at the 1924 Winter Olympics
  The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was represented at the inaugural Winter Olympic Games in 1924 in Chamonix, France with a delegation of four competitors.- Cross-country skiing:-References:...
  
  , including Croats Dušan Zinaja
  Dušan Zinaja
  Dušan Zinaja was a Croatian and Yugoslav cross-country skier and football striker and coach.Zinaja was born in Budapest ....
  
   and Mirko Pandaković who competed in cross-country skiing
• April 27 – Football club NK Maksimir
  NK Maksimir
  NK Maksimir is a Croatian football club founded in 1924 and based in the Maksimir district of Zagreb. They currently play in 4. HNL, fourth level league of Croatian football.-Current squad:- External links :*...
  
   founded
• N/A – Football club NK Vrbovec
  NK Vrbovec
  NK Vrbovec is a Croatian football club based in the town of Vrbovec in Zagreb County.It was founded in 1924 and is now playing in the Treća HNL- West .Their stadium is called Sajmište and has a capacity of 3.000 spectators....
  
   founded
• N/A – Stadion Koturaška
  Stadion Koturaška
  Stadion Koturaška, also referred to as Građanski Stadium was a football stadium in Zagreb, Croatia. It was located at Koturaška Road in today's Trnje and was home to the football club Građanski Zagreb for over 20 years from 1924 to 1945...
  
   football venue opened in Zagreb

Births

• January 9 – Mirko Grmek
  Mirko Grmek
  Mirko Dražen Grmek was a Croatian and French historian of medicine, writer and scientist. He was one of the pioneers and founders of the history of medicine...
  
  , medical historian (d. 2000
  2000 in Croatia
  ----Events from the year 2000 in Croatia.-Events:*January 3 – The 2000 general election held, won by a centre-left coalition of Social Democratic Party of Croatia and Croatian Social Liberal Party...
  
  )
• March 30 – Milko Kelemen
  Milko Kelemen
  Milko Kelemen is a Croatian composer.- Life :Milko Kelemen studied under Stjepan Šulek in Zagreb, under Olivier Messiaen in Paris and Wolfgang Fortner in Freiburg amongst others....
  
  , composer
• June 18 – Nela Eržišnik
  Nela Eržišnik
  Nela Eržišnik was a Croatian actress.Born in Banja Luka as Nevenka Maras, she appeared in some classic Croatian films of the 1950s and early 1960s. Later, she switched to television and built a reputation as one of the rare female stand-up comedians in Croatia . Her most memorable character is...
  
  , actress and comedienne (d. 2007)
• July 4 – Frano Vodopivec
  Frano Vodopivec
  Frano Vodopivec was an award-winning Croatian cinematographer.Vodopivec first began working with film and photography in high school and during World War II he worked at Hrvatski slikopis, the state-sponsored film company which produced propaganda shorts for the short-lived fascist regime of the...
  
  , cinematographerr (d. 1998)
• July 22 – Fedor Škubonja
  Fedor Škubonja
  Fedor Škubonja was a Croatian film director.Škubonja spent most of his career making children's films. His most notable film was the award-winning 1960 Yugoslav film The Lost Pencil , which won the Golden Lion for Best Children's Film at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, and was named as one of the...
  
  , film director (d. 2008)
• September 5 – Rajka Vali
  Rajka Vali
  Valerija Raukar most commonly known by her stage name Rajka Vali is an Croatian pop music singer who enjoyed success through the 1940s and 1950s....
  
  , pop singer
• October 29 – Mirko Vidaković
  Mirko Vidakovic
  Mirko pl. Vidaković was Croatian botanist and dendrologist and the expert for the genetics of the forest trees.-Biography:Vidaković was born in Lemeš, Bačka, to a family of Bunjevci Croats...
  
  , botanist (d. 2002)
• November 21 – Milka Planinc
  Milka Planinc
  Milka Planinc was an ethnic Croatian Yugoslav politician. She served as a Prime Minister of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986. She was the first female head of government in the history of real socialism...
  
  , politician, served as a Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
  Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
  The Prime Minister or the President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia was the head of government of the Yugoslav state, from the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918 until the end of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992.-Kingdom of...
  
   1982–1986 (d. 2010
  2010 in Croatia
  ----Events from the year 2010 in Croatia.-Events:*10 January - Second round of the presidential election is held. Ivo Josipović beats Milan Bandić winning 60.3% of the vote.*18 February - Ivo Josipović officially inaugurated as President at St...
  
  )

Deaths

• October 21 – Viktor Kovačić
  Viktor Kovacic
  Viktor Kovačić was a Croatian architect. His projects are marked with subtle purity of reduced elements of historicism, like in monumental Stock Exchange Palace in Zagreb, 1924...
  
  , architect (b. 1874)
• N/A – Aleksandar Rakodczay
  Aleksandar Rakodczay
  Aleksandar Rakodczay was a Croatian politician who served as Ban of Croatia-Slavonia between 1907 and 1908....
  
  , politician, served as Ban of Croatia
  Ban of Croatia
  Ban of Croatia was the title of local rulers and after 1102 viceroys of Croatia. From earliest periods of Croatian state, some provinces were ruled by Bans as a rulers representative and supreme military commander. In the 18th century, Croatian bans eventually become chief government officials in...
  
   1907–1908 (b. 1848)