Vilhelm Moberg

Vilhelm Moberg

male, deceased (1973)
Vilhelm Moberg (August 20, 1898 - August 8, 1973) was a Swedish author and historian, most known for his series of four novels, The Emigrants
Carolus Linnaeus

Carolus Linnaeus

male, deceased (1778)
Carl Linnaeus, Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, ph...
Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Lindgren

female, deceased (2002)
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and...
Ingvar Kamprad

Ingvar Kamprad

male, 83 years old
Ingvar Feodor Kamprad (born March 30, 1926) is a Swedish entrepreneur who is the founder of the home furnishing retail chain IKEA. As of 2007 he is...
Elias Magnus Fries

Elias Magnus Fries

male, deceased (1878)
Elias Magnus Fries was a Swedish mycologist and botanist born at Femsjö in Småland.
Per Engdahl

Per Engdahl

male, deceased (1994)
Per Claes Sven Edvard Engdahl was a leading Swedish neo-Nazi politician. He began his political career as a member of the "Nationalsocialistiska...
Bernhard Karlgren

Bernhard Karlgren

male, deceased (1978)
Bernhard Karlgren was a Swedish sinologist, philologist, and the founder of Swedish sinology as a scholarly discipline. His full name was Klas...
Lena Philipsson

Lena Philipsson

female, 43 years old
Lena Philipsson, also known as Lena Ph, is a Swedish singer and media personality. Philipsson came to notice in the Swedish "New Faces" in 1982....
Martin Kellerman

Martin Kellerman

male, 36 years old
Martin Kellerman is a Swedish comic creator. His most famous work is his (in Sweden) immensely popular semi-autobiographical funny animal strip...

Göran Malmqvist

male, 85 years old
Professor Nils Göran David Malmqvist (born June 6 1924) is a Swedish linguist, member of the Swedish Academy ("Chair No.5"), literary historian, s...