Mira Đaković was born in Bjelopolje, near Korenica, in Lika. Her family was affected by the Second World War, during which they hid in various places in the Lika region. Her father was awarded the Partisan Commemorative Medal, which during Yugoslavia was given to participants in the People's Liberation Movement. Until 1968, Mira Đaković lived in Donji Lapac. She then moved to Bihać with her husband, who completed his medical specialisation there. At the outbreak of the war in the 1990s she was in Bihać. After the conflict started in Bosnia, she returned to Donji Lapac with her husband. Her daughter had left for university in Belgrade before the war. After Operation Storm she went to Belgrade in a refugee column. Soon after, she and her husband returned to Croatia, to Vukovar, where he had secured a job in the hospital as a pulmonologist. Her husband died in Vukovar and she returned to Bihać alone. She sold the apartment that they had lived in before the war. Today she is retired and lives in Lika.