Balkan Athletes in Paris

Reviewing the week of 22-28 July (#30) and previewing the week of 29 July-4 August (#31) of 2024.

News Roundup

The Olympics

“Balkan Countries Eye Potential Medals at Paris Olympics,” Balkan Insight, July 25, 2024

“As Balkan teams descend on Paris for the 2024 summer Olympics, their countries are pinning their highest hopes of success on those sports in which they have traditionally excelled.

“Paris 2024: Balkan Athletes Ready for the Olympic Games,” MTEL, unknown

“The Paris 2024 Olympic Games have brought together athletes from around the world, including hundreds of talented competitors from the Balkans. Among the 10,500 athletes from around the globe, several hundred competitors from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia will compete for over 300 medals.”

Today in History

Events

• 29 July 1914 – The First World War begins.
• 2 August 1903 – Ilinden Uprising against the Ottomans begins in Macedonia.

Birthdays

• 30 July
  • 1948 – Milivoj Karakašević, Serbian/Yugoslav table tennis player
• 31 July
  • 1918 – Mia Oremović, Croatian actress
  • 1951 – Vjekoslav Šutej, Croatian conductor
• 1 August
  • 1910 – Bojan Stupica, Slovenian actor and director
  • 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician
  • 1953 – Bogdan Diklić, Serbian actor
  • 1967 – Nehat Beqiri, Macedonian/Albanian artist
• 2 August
  • 1920 – Marija Bursać, Croatian/Yugoslav Partisan; first woman to be People’s Hero of Yugoslavia
  • 1926 – Jug Grizelj, Serbian/Yugoslav journalist
  • 1929 – Dušan Vujisić, Serbian actor
  • 1933 – Ljubica Otašević, Serbian actor and basketball player
  • 1934 – Aleksandar Stojanović, Serbian/Macedonian ballet dancer
  • 1940 – Kole Mangov, Macednian poet and activist
  • 1942 – Ilija Pantelić, Serbian/Yugoslav football player
  • 1948 – Borivoje Đorđević, Serbian/Yugoslav football player
  • 1965 – Refik Šabanadžović, Montenegrin/Yugoslav football player
• 3 August
  • 1903 – Dušan Baranin, Serbian writer
  • 1928 – Ferenc Feher, Hungarian/Yugoslav writer and translator
• 4 August
  • 1910 – Žorž Skrigin, Russian/Yugoslav photographer, film director, and Partisan
  • 1922 – Janez Stanovnik, Slovenian Partisan, lawyer, and politician
  • 1936 – Milenko Maticki, Serbian writer and journalist
  • 1937 – Slobodan Ivković, Serbian/Yugoslav basketball player and coach

Deaths

• 29 July
  • 1992 – Dominik Smole, Slovenian playwright
  • 2005 – Milan Mile Lojpur, Serbian musician
  • 2008 – Mate Parlov, Croatian/Yugoslav boxer, Olympic gold medalist
  • 2011 – Muharem Pervić, Serbian literary and theater critic
  • 2018 – Oliver Dragojević, Croatian/Yugoslav chansonnier
• 30 July
  • 1929 – Pavle Marganović, one of seven secretaries of SKOJ
  • 1988 – Raško Dimitrijević, Serbian writer and translator
  • 1989 – Ferenc Feher, Hungarian/Yugoslav writer and translator
  • 1994 – Ipče Ahmedovski, Serbian folk singer
  • 2018 – Risto Tubić, Serbian/Yugoslav philosopher and translator
  • 2019 – Ivo Lipanović, Croatian/Yugoslav rower and Olympian
• 31 July
  • 1996 – Petar Džadžić, Serbian/Yugoslav literary critic
  • 2010 – Feliks Pašić, Serbian/Yugoslav literature and theater critic
  • 2011 – Ljubiša Stojanović Luis, Serbian/Yugoslav singer
  • 2013 – Enco Lesić, Croatian musician (Indexi) and composer
• 1 August
  • 1955 – Stanislav Vinaver, Serbian poet, Rebecca West’s guide
  • 1998 – France Mihelič, Slovenian painter
  • 2001 – Zuzana Chalupová, Slovak/Serbian painter
• 2 August
  • 1962 – Nikola Kirov Majski, Macedonian writer and revolutionary
  • 1963 – Đorđi Abadžijev, Macedonian writer and historian
  • 2009 – Georgi Vasilevski, Macedonian film critic
• 4 August
  • 1977 – Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian literary historian
  • 2019 – Svetislav Vuković, Serbian media personality and poet
  • 2020 – Rajko Dujmić, Croatian musician (Novi Fosili)