1940 in Sweden

Events from the year 1940 in Sweden

Incumbents

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

Events

• April – Initiation of regular transit of German troops through Sweden to and from Norway
• 30 December – Victor Hasselblad forms the Victor Hasselblad AB Camera Company.

Births

• 22 January – Tobias Berggren, poet.
• 12 May – Lill Lindfors, Finnish-Swedish singer
• 11 June – Gunnar Harding, poet.
• 18 October – Carl von Essen, fencer.
• 12 October – Gösta Pettersson, cyclist

Deaths

• 10 March – Agnes von Krusenstjerna, writer (born 1894)
• 16 March – Selma Lagerlöf, writer (born 1858)
• 24 November – Janne Lundblad, horse rider (born 1877).
• 12 October – Ann-Margret Holmgren, feminist and pacifist writer (born 1850)

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