1963 in Sweden

Events from the year 1963 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustaf VI Adolf
• Prime Minister – Tage Erlander

Events

Popular culture

Film

• 23 September – The Silence released
• Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie, documentary film directed by Vilgot Sjöman

Sport

• 7 to 13 September – The World Weightlifting Championships were held in Stockholm

Births

• 17 February – Carina Görlin, cross-country skier
• 12 March – Jerri Bergström, fencer.
• 1 April – Tobias Svantesson, tennis player
• 9 April – Magnus Tideman, tennis player
• 10 April – Jeppe Wikström, book publisher and photographer
• 11 May – Gunilla Carlsson, politician
• 29 June – Thomas W. Gabrielsson, actor
• 26 July – Torgny Mogren, cross-country skier
• 14 October – Maria Lundqvist, actress
• 23 April – Pia Cramling, chess grandmaster.
• 1 September – Idde Schultz, singer and guitarist
• 25 September – Mikael Persbrandt, actor
• 31 October – Mikkey Dee, musician
• 29 December – Ulf Kristersson, politician

Deaths

• 7 January – Erik Lundqvist, athlete (born 1908).
• 14 March – Karl-Erik Grahn, football player (born 1914)
• 26 May – Otto von Rosen, military officer, sport shooter (born 1884).
• 14 June – Carl Skottsberg, botanist and Antarctic explorer (born 1880)
• 25 July – Gösta Stoltz, chess grandmaster (born 1904)

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