Events from the year 1981 in Croatia.

Births January 14 – Jadranka Đokić, actress. January 28 – Marko Babić, footballer. February 26 – Tomislav Dujmović, footballer. March 29 – Dolores Lambaša, actress. April 14 – Jacques Houdek, singer. July 6 – Jelena Kostanić Tošić, tennis player. September 8 – Žanamari Lalić, singer and winner of Hrvatski Idol (season 1) November 27 – Nataša Janjić, actress. December 2 – Danijel Pranjić, footballer. December 4 – Matija Kvasina, cyclist. December 18 – Nives Celsius, singer and writer.

Deaths September 2 – Andrija Maurović, comic book author (b. 1901). December 29 – Miroslav Krleža, writer (b. 1893). December 30 – Franjo Šeper, Cardinal (b. 1905).

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