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1377 The first quarantine in Dubrovnik. The Great Council of the Republic adopted a decree which introduced a quarantine as a measure of protection against the spread of infectious diseases by which all merchants, sailors, and goods arriving from "suspicious lands" could not enter the city if they haven't spent a month in a quarantines which were on the remote, uninhabited islands of Mrkan, Bobara and Supetar. These quarantines were at first in the outdoors but since the weather conditions were almost as deadly as the diseases, the government decided to build few wooden dwellings (wooden so that it could be burned if needed). This decision was made after Dubrovnik was struck by an outbreak of the plague in 1348 which killed a few thousand citizens. This decree was published in Dubrovnik's book of laws, the so-called Green Book (Latin: Liber viridis); Veniens de locis pestiferis non intret Ragusium nel districtum (English: Whoever comes from the infected lands shall not enter Ragusa or its territory)  

1909 Died Slavoljub Vormastini (Wormastiny), military pharmacist, museum preparator, entomologist (Šrvošovice, Galicia, 18 May 1816 – Zagreb, 27 July 1909). He worked at the Croatian National Zoological Museum in Zagreb as a zoopreparator.

1913 Born Laslo Kallai, internist gastroenterologist (Veliki Bečkerek, today Zrenjanin, July 27, 1913 - Zagreb, May 11, 1984). He finished high school in 1931 in his hometown, and studied in 1937 at the School of Medicine in Zagreb. He specialized in internal medicine from 1938 to 1941. at the Internal Medicine Clinic of that faculty. During the Second World War, he spent two years in concentration camps in Crikvenica, Kraljevica and Rab, then interned in Switzerland. He continued his specialization in 1945 at the Foundation Hospital, where after passing the specialist exam in 1946 he was an assistant at the Internal Medicine Clinic, and from 1951 until his retirement in 1983 he was the head of the Gastroenterology Department. He was elected assistant professor at the Zagreb School of Medicine in 1955, associate professor since 1961, and full professor since 1965. He studied in England in 1950 and in Switzerland and France in 1956. The main area of ​​his scientific interest and activity was gastroenterology, especially hepatology in connection with functional and enzymatic diagnostics. He studied intrahepatic circulation in pathological liver conditions and the role of heavy metals in liver diseases. He is a pioneer and one of the founders of modern gastroenterology in Croatia. He founded the first gastroenterology department, introduced numerous diagnostic and therapeutic methods (liver biopsy, gastroscopy, laparoscopy) and in 1973 founded a postgraduate study in gastroenterology. He was the president of the Association of Gastroenterologists of Yugoslavia 1967-1972. and the first president of the Gastroenterology Section of the Croatian Medical Association.

1992 Died Veljko Mandić, Croatian physician, orthopedist (Dubrovnik, November 8, 1917 – Zagreb, July 27, 1992). After completing his medical studies in Zagreb (1941) and specialization in orthopedics (1954), he worked until 1961 at the Zagreb Clinic for Orthopedics. He was the initiator of the establishment and the head of the Department of Rehabilitation and Orthopedic Aids (1961-1966), and from 1966 until his retirement in 1987 he was the head of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. In 1971, he completed a specialization in physical medicine; he was a full professor at the Zagreb School of Medicine. He dealt with the issue of medical rehabilitation, especially in the field of orthopedic prosthetics, balneoclimatology, especially balneological analysis and medical significance of peloids on the Croatian Adriatic coast, and made a number of expertises on the composition and properties of thermo-mineral waters in Croatia.