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1997 Blanka Jutriša-Koržinek, Croatian doctor, ophthalmologist, died (Zagreb, 18 September 1913 - Zagreb, 10 August 1997). In 1932 she finished high school in Zagreb, and in 1938 she graduated from the School of Medicine. From 1939 until her retirement in 1975, she worked at the Eye Clinic, where she completed her specialization in 1946, and then was the head of the department. Since 1950, she has also run the Trachoma Children's Shelter in Zagreb and performed ophthalmological supervision in many orphanages in Croatia. She was habilitated in 1959 for the title of assistant professor at the School of Medicine, and she also taught in schools for nurses. She has dealt with the pathology and clinic of malignant tumors of the eye and operative ophthalmology, the impact of blepharoptosis on refractive anomalies, investigated senile changes in the ocular background and worked on the assessment of work ability and disability of ocular patients. She is the author and co-author of screenplays for students of the College of Nursing and for students of the School of Medicine.

2008 Franjo Kosoković, Croatian physician, otorhinolaryngologist, died (Karlovac, September 28, 1924 - Zagreb, August 10, 2008). He finished high school in 1943 in Karlovac, and in Zagreb in 1951 he graduated from the School of Medicine and in 1969 received his doctorate with the thesis Peripheral paralysis of the facialis. He worked in the mining clinic and hospital in Raša, after the postgraduate course for directors of health centers he was appointed director of the Health Center in Labin in 1952, and in 1953 he was transferred to Zagreb as deputy director of the Health Center Maksimir. From 1956 to 1959 he specialized in otorhinolaryngology at the General Hospital „Dr. Josip Kajfeš“, then worked for another year as a specialist at the Maksimir Health Center and in 1960 moved to the Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases of the University Hospital Center Zagreb, where he was the head of the men's department and head from 1986 until his retirement in 1989. He habilitated at the Zagreb School of Medicine in 1971, in 1974 he was elected associate professor, and in 1979 full professor. He was especially involved in the clinic and therapy of head and neck tumors, functional partial laryngeal surgery in malignant tumors and peripheral paralysis of the personal nerve.

2010 Zvonimir Krajina, Croatian physician, otorhinolaryngologist, died (Šibenik, 12 January 1923 - Zagreb, 10 August 2010). He was the first Croatian doctor to graduate immediately after the Second World War. Since then, he has performed many important duties at the Clinical Hospital Center, the Faculty, and the University. He was the dean of the Zagreb School of Medicine (1974-1977), the rector of the University (1982-1986) and the vice-president of the Croatian Medical Academy. He also helped found the School of Medicine in Split. He performed numerous social functions in professional and scientific organizations. He has published more than 300 professional and scientific papers in domestic and reputable foreign journals. He received the Ruđer Bošković Republic Award for scientific work (1978) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (1985). He enriched the Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases and Head and Neck Surgery with a series of improvements in the profession, teaching and science. In particular, he developed rhinology and functional nose surgery, head and neck oncology, and functional laryngeal surgery. He and his collaborators founded the "Zagreb method of partial laryngectomy", about which a monograph was published in 1994. In 1998, he became a professor emeritus.