Births

• February 17 – Stipe Šuvar
  Stipe Šuvar
  Stipe Šuvar was a leading Croatian and Yugoslav politician and sociologist. He entered top politics in 1972 being co-opted to the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia . Two years later he became Croatian minister of education and performed a controversial educational reform in...
  
  , sociologist and politician (d. 2004)
• April 8 – Milivoj Solar
  Milivoj Solar
  Milivoj Solar is a Croatian literary theorist and literary historian.-Biography:Solar was born on 8 April 1936 in Koprivnica. At the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences he earned a degree in philosophy and Yugoslav studies in 1959...
  
  , literary critic
• April 29 – Miroslav Šutej
  Miroslav Šutej
  Miroslav Šutej was a Croatian avant-garde painter and graphic artist.Šutej was born in Duga Resa in 1936. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb and was an associate in Krsto Hegedušić's master's workshop...
  
  , painter (d. 2005
  2005 in Croatia
  ----Events from the year 2005 in Croatia.-Incumbents:*President - Stjepan Mesić*Prime Minister - Ivo Sanader-Events:*January 2 - First round of presidential elections. Stjepan Mesić and Jadranka Kosor enter into the second round....
  
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• July 8 – Gabi Novak
  Gabi Novak
  Gabi Novak is a Croatian pop and jazz singer. She became famous in the 1960s.Gabi was born to a Croatian father and a German mother.She is married to Arsen Dedić, a renowned singer-songwriter who also composed many of her songs....
  
  , singer
• November 18 – Ante Žanetić
  Ante Žanetic
  Ante Žanetić is a former Croatian footballer.During his club career he played for NK Hajduk Split, Club Brugge K.V. and Racing White. He earned 15 caps for the Yugoslavia national football team, and participated in the 1960 European Nations' Cup...
  
  , footballer

Deaths

• September 15 – Svetozar Pribićević
  Svetozar Pribicevic
  Svetozar Pribićević was an ethnic Serb politician from Croatia who worked hard for creation of unitaristic Yugoslavia. However, he later became a bitter opponent of the same policy and of the dictatorship of king Aleksandar Karađorđević...
  
  , ethnic Serb politician (b. 1875)
• December 18 – Andrija Mohorovičić
  Andrija Mohorovicic
  Andrija Mohorovičić was a Croatian meteorologist and seismologist. He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is considered a founder of modern seismology.-Early years:...
  
  , meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)
• December 24 – Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger
  Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger
  Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger was a Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archeologist.-Education:...
  
  , paleontologist (b. 1856)