Olof Palme

Olof Palme

male, deceased (1986)
death by firearm in Sweden, Social Democratic Party, Swedish history, Swedish Social Democratic Party, Swedish Minister for Education, Assassinated Swedish…Kenyon College alumni, StockholmUniversityalumni, From Stockholm, Sweden
Sven Olof Joachim Palme (January 30, 1927 - March 1, 1986) was a Swedish politician. Palme was the leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1969...

Dag Hammarskjöld

male, deceased (1961)
Plane crash victim, Economist, swedish, Member of the Swedish Academy, diplomat, StockholmUniversityalumni…Uppsala University alumni
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (July 29, 1905 - September 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and the second Secretary-General of the United N...
Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

male, 91 years old
From Uppsala, Auteur, swedish language, swedish, Screenwriter, film director…StockholmUniversityalumni
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the 20th century.
Bernt Carlsson

Bernt Carlsson

male, deceased (1988)
Plane crash victim, diplomat, swedish, Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie bombing, second world war…StockholmUniversityalumni
Bernt Wilmar Carlsson (born 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden) was UN Commissioner for Namibia. He died when Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed over...
Fredrik Reinfeldt

Fredrik Reinfeldt

male, 44 years old (Sweden)
prime minister, John Fredrik Reinfeldt, liberal conservative, Stockholm County, Moderate Party, Coalition Government…StockholmUniversityalumni, From Stockholm
John Fredrik Reinfeldt (born August 4, 1965, in Österhaninge) is the current Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of the liberal conservative M...
Sofia Kovalevskaya

Sofia Kovalevskaya

female, deceased (1891)
Sonya Kovalevsky, physicist, Professorship, From Moscow, Sonia Kovalevsky, Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya…Stockholm University, StockholmUniversityalumni
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya, also known as Sonya Kovalevsky, was the first major Russian female mathematician, and also the first woman who was...
Gunnar Myrdal

Gunnar Myrdal

male, deceased (1987)
The Race Question, Nobel Prize, brown v. board of education, Friedrich von Hayek, Gustafs, economics…stockholm school of economics, Stockholm University, StockholmUniversityalumni, Stockholm school
Gunnar Myrdal (December 6, 1898 - May 17, 1987) was a Swedish economist and politician. He was born in Gustafs, Dalarna, and died in Danderyd,...
Bertil Ohlin

Bertil Ohlin

male, deceased (1979)
Trade Economist, Harvard University, Harvard University alumni, swedish, economics, comparative advantage…stockholm school of economics, StockholmUniversityalumni, University of Copenhagen, Stockholm University, Lund University
Bertil Ohlin (pronounced) (April 23, 1899 - August 3, 1979), was a Swedish economist and winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. His...

Tomas Tranströmer

male, 78 years old
Psychologist, Minnena ser mig, Den stora gåtan, Södra Latin School, The Great Enigma New Collected Poems, air mail…Stockholm University, StockholmUniversityalumni
Tomas Tranströmer is a Swedish writer, poet and translator, whose poetry has been deeply influential in Sweden, as well as around the world. T...
Horace Engdahl

Horace Engdahl

male, 60 years old
Polyglot, Romanticism, Karlskrona, Member of the Swedish Academy, From Karlskrona, University of Aarhus…Södertörn University College, Stockholm University, StockholmUniversityalumni
Horace Engdahl (born December 30, 1948) is a Swedish literary historian and critic. He has been the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy...