Sport

• Jugoplastika Split became champion of Yugoslavia in basketball.
• Damir Škaro
  Damir Škaro
  Damir Škaro is a former Croatian amateur boxer who won the Light Heavyweight Bronze medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul with Yugoslavia, as well as a Croatian politician....
  
   won a bronze medal in light heavyweight boxing at the 1988 Olympics
  1988 Summer Olympics
  The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...
  
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Deaths

• January 9 - Juraj Krnjević
  Juraj Krnjevic
  Juraj Krnjević was a Croatian politician who was among the leaders of the Croatian Peasant Party . He was the party's General Secretary since 1928 and President since 1964...
  
  , leader of the Croatian Peasant Party
  Croatian Peasant Party
  The Croatian Peasant Party is a center and socially conservative political party in Croatia.-Austria-Hungary:The Croatian People's Peasant Party was formed on December 22, 1904 by Antun Radić along with his brother Stjepan Radić. The party contested elections for the first time in the Kingdom of...
  
   in exile
• February 6 - Zvonimir Rogoz
  Zvonimir Rogoz
  Zvonimir Rogoz was a Croatian actor.A native of Zagreb, Zvonimir Rogoz became famous in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars...
  
  , actor
• August 2 - Nada Klaić
  Nada Klaic
  Nada Klaić was a Croatian historian. She was influential and controversial Croatian medievalist of the 20th century.-Academic career:...
  
  , historian
• September 26 - Branko Zebec
  Branko Zebec
  Branislav "Branko" Zebec was a Croatian football player and coach...
  
  , footballer