Mirogoj Cemetery - Zagreb, Croatia |
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ĆOSIĆ Krešimir |
26. 11. 1948, Zagreb, Croatia - 25. 5. 1995, Washington,
USA |
Croatian professional
basketball player from Yugoslavia. Ćosić played in four Olympic
Games: 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1980 in Moscow when he led his team to the gold
medal. He previously led Yugoslavia to a pair of World Championship gold
medals in 1970 and 1978. In the years following basketball he worked in the
USA as a Croatian diplomat at the embassy in Washington, D.C. Ćosić
died in 1995 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma |
NEDBAL Oskar |
26. 3 . 1874, Tabor, Czech - 24. 12. 1930, Zagreb,
Croatia |
Czech violist, composer,
and conductor of classical music. Because of mounting personal debts, Nedbal
committed suicide by jumping out of a window of the Zagreb Opera House on
Christmas Eve, 24 December 1930. |
PETROVIĆ Dražen |
22. 10. 1964, Šibenik, Croatia - 7. 6. 1993, Denkendorf,
Germany |
Croatian basketball player
- Cibona Zagreb, Real Madrid, Portland and New Jersey (both NBA). Dražen
Petrović died as a passenger in a car involved in a traffic accident on
the rain-drenched Autobahn 9 at Denkendorf, near Ingolstadt |
PRERADOVIĆ Petar |
19. 3. 1818, Grabrovnica, Croatia - 18. 8. 1872,
Fahrafeld, Austria |
Croatian Serb poet.
Grandfather of Paula Preradović (October 12, 1887 - May 25, 1951), known
professionally as Paula von Preradović or by her married name as Paula
Molden, was a Croatian and Austrian writer and narrator. She composed the
lyrics for the national anthem of Austria in 1947, Land der Berge, Land am
Strome. |
TUĐMAN Franjo |
14. 5. 1922, Veliko Trgovišće, Croatia - 10. 12.
1999, Zagreb, Croatia |
the first president of
Croatia in the 1990s |
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