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1835 Anton (Antonin) Ernest Katkić, Croatian pharmacist, was born (Jastrebarsko, 12th October 1835. - Zagreb, 29th September 1895). The brother of the cultural worker Ignjat. As a pharmacy trainee he worked in the pharmacy of Dragutin Ody in Jastrebarsko, then he was a pharmacist assistent in the Kaptol pharmacy of Gratijan Mihić in Zagreb. He finished his pharmacy studies in Prague in 1856, where he then worked at the pharmacy Pokorny. Two years after graduation, he returned to Croatia and rented Ody's pharmacy, then got a concession for a new pharmacy in Otočac, then in Karlovac. In 1883 he bought Kaptol pharmacy St. Mary in Zagreb (Opatovina) which he governed until his death. He was president of the Main Croatian-Slavonian Pharmacy association (1885-1891) and the Croatian Pharmaceutical Society "Aesculap" (1890). He participated as a practical pharmacy examiner (1890-95) at the so-called third strict exam of pharmacy students.

1977 Died Pavao Sokolić, Croatian physician (Ogulin, June 15, 1907 - October 12, 1977), founder of the Department of General Pathological Physiology at the Zagreb School of Medicine and full professor of General Pathological Physiology at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Zagreb. He graduated in medicine in Zagreb in 1933. After specialization in internal medicine, he worked until 1945 at the Internal Clinic of the Medical Faculty in Zagreb as an assistant, and later as an assistant professor, giving lectures and exercises in Internal Propaedeutics. During this period, he paid special attention to cardiology, especially electrocardiography, and wrote a chapter on electrocardiography in Botteri's textbook Internal Medicine. Before the Second World War, he was very active in the work of the Croatian Medical Association, and was the secretary of the Internal Medicine Section, the secretary of the Gastroenterology Section and a member of the Association. After his release, he worked as an internist at the Naval Hospital in Split and at the hospital "Dr. Josip Kajfeš ”in Zagreb. He returned to the School of Medicine in Zagreb in 1948 and worked at the Department of Pharmacology, where he began preparations for the organization of the Department of Pathological Physiology and teaching the subject, and combined theoretical experimental work with clinical practice. Until his death, he remained the head of the Department of General Pathological Physiology, developing the Department and teaching in the direction he had set when the Institute was founded.

1991 Bruno Halle, Croatian internist, died (Sisak, 16 November 1900 - Zagreb, 12 October 1991). He finished high school in 1919 in Zagreb and began studying medicine, continuing it in Würzburg, where in 1925 he was promoted by his dissertation Über die reversible Hämolyse. Although he was offered a position as an assistant at the Faculty of Dentistry there, he returned to Zagreb to volunteer to specialize in internal medicine at the Hospital of the Merciful Nurses. After specialization in 1929, he remained to work in the Internal Affairs Department until 1947, performing 1945/46. and the duty of head of department. In 1938, he founded a hematology department with a hematology-biochemistry laboratory. From 1947 to 1951 he worked in the Internal Medicine Clinic, then until his retirement he was a doctor in the Internal Medicine Department and the head of the Central Medical Laboratory of the General Hospital „Dr. Josip Kajfeš“ in Zagreb (today “Sveti Duh”). He was especially interested in hematology by introducing modern diagnostic procedures such as bone marrow puncture, lymph nodes, spleen and others. He was elected an honorary member of the Croatian Medical Association. He was married to the writer Mirjana Matić-Halle, and he himself was engaged in poetry and criticism, wrote philosophical essays and played the violin.

2010 Ljubo Barić, Croatian internist cardiologist, died (Knin, 19 May 1920 - Zagreb, 12 October 2010). After completing his medical studies in Zagreb (1947), he worked all his working life at the Internal Department (later the Internal Clinic) of the Hospital of the Sisters of Charity in Zagreb, where he headed the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases from 1962. He was also a full professor at the Faculty of Dentistry in Zagreb (since 1977). In particular, he studied myocardial infarction and digitalis therapy. He founded the first coronary unit in the former Yugoslavia. He introduced many modern cardiac diagnostic methods to Croatia and was the first to describe some diseases and symptoms in Croatian medical literature.