1939 in Sweden

Events from the year 1939 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustaf V
• Prime Minister – Per Albin Hansson

Events

• 31 August – The Sandö Bridge collapsed while under construction, and 18 workers were killed in the event.

• The secret intelligence agency C-byrÃ¥n established.
• The Åhlinska skolan is closed.

Literature

• Pelle Svanslös pÃ¥ äventyr by Gösta Knutsson, the first book in the Pelle Svanslös children's book series

Births

• 15 January – Per Ahlmark, writer and politician
• 25 January - Gabriel Romanus, politician
• 21 February - Börje Ahlstedt, actor
• 30 June - Anna-Greta Leijon, politician (d. 2024)
• 28 July – Gösta Ekman, actor, comedian, and director
• 2 September - Ivar Jacobson, computer scientist and software engineer

Deaths

• 12 January – Hugo Jahnke, gymnast (born 1886).
• 16 May – Anders Lindstedt mathematician, astronomer and actuarial scientist, known for the Poincaré–Lindstedt method (born 1854)
• 29 May – Åke Lundeberg, sport shooter (born 1888).
• 18 December – Bruno Liljefors, painter (born 1860)

Full date missing

• Olof Olsson, politician (born 1872).

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