2021 in Croatia

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia

• January 2 – National day of mourning due to the 2020 Petrinja earthquake.^[1]
• January 5 – National day of mourning due to the 2021 Tribistovo poisoning.^[1]

• 12 April: The start of the 2021 Balkan non-papers.
  • The paper called for the "peaceful dissolution" of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the annexation of Republika Srpska and great parts of Herzegovina and Central Bosnia into a Greater Serbia and Greater Croatia, leaving a small Bosniak state in what is central and western Bosnia,^[2][3]

• 25 to 31 January – Scheduled date for the 2021 European Figure Skating Championships, which were to be held in Zagreb.^[4] In December 2020 it was announced that the ISU Council had decided to cancel the championships due to increasing risks in view of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.^[5]
• 16 May – the 2021 Croatian local elections.^[6]

• January 4 – Nojko Marinović [hr], general and war commander of the defence of Dubrovnik (b. 1948).^[7]
• January 20 – Mira Furlan, actress and singer (b. 1955).^[8]
• January 31 – Miroslav Tuđman, scientist and politician (b. 1946).^[9]

• February 1 – Đuro Savinović, water polo player (b. 1950).^[10]
• February 12 – Mladen Vranković, football player and manager (b. 1937).^[11]
• February 21 – Zlatko Saračević, handball player and coach (b. 1961).^[12]
• February 28 – Milan Bandić, politician and mayor of Zagreb (b. 1955).^[13]

• March 1 – Zlatko Kranjčar, football player and manager (b. 1956).^[14]
• March 8 – Josip Alebić, sprinter (b. 1947).^[15]
• March 10 – Mirko Bazić, football player and manager (b. 1938).^[16]

• April 29 – Bogdan Žižić, film director and screenwriter (b. 1934).^[17]

• May 4 – Saša Anočić [hr], actor and producer (b. 1968).^[18]

• August 8 – Aleksej Demjanov, gymnast (b. 1973).^[19]

• September 15 – Žana Lelas, basketball player (b. 1970).^[20]

• October 21 – Žarko Potočnjak, actor (b. 1946).^[21]

• December 3 – Kasandra [hr], singer (b. 1967).^[22]