1904 in Sweden

Events from the year 1904 in Sweden.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar II
• Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström

Events

• 10 January - The Swedish Antarctic Expedition returns to Stockholm.
• 18 December – The Swedish Football Association is founded in Stockholm.
• Date unknown – First issue of Morgonbris.
• Date unknown – From this year until 1909, co-education is introduced in a number of state secondary education schools, which makes private girls schools redundant.

Births

• 4 January - Hjördis Töpel, Olympic diver and swimmer
• 13 January - Ewa Olliwier, Olympic diver
• 18 January - John Axel Nannfeldt, botanist and mycologist
• 24 January - Wivan Pettersson, Olympic swimmer
• 29 February - Helmer Grundström, writer
• 31 March - Harald Berglund, cinematographer
• 1 April - Holger Löwenadler, film actor
• 2 April - Karl Ragnar Gierow, theater director, author and translator
• 8 April - Georg Werner, Olympic freestyle swimmer
• 6 May - Harry Martinson, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
• 22 May - Uno Lamm (born August Uno Lamm), electrical engineer and inventor
• 2 July - Erik Lundin, chess master
• 19 July - Vera Schmiterlöw, film actress

Deaths

• 19 April - Hanna Styrell, actress and royal mistress (born 1842)
• 29 May - Maria Paulina Åhman, harpist (born 1812)
• 11 June - Clas Theodor Odhner, historian (born 1836)
• 15 October - Anna Stecksén, scientist (born 1870)

References