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1990 in Sweden

Events from the year 1990 in Sweden

Incumbents

Events

January

February

  • 2 February – After South African President F.W. de Klerk announces he is legalising the ANC and other groups, Walter Sisulu in Stockholm with other ANC leaders visiting Oliver Tambo praise the decision but call for further progress including the release of Nelson Mandela.
  • 8 February
  • Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson states that the economy is “falling apart” and that his minority government will resign unless parliament passes a ban on strikes and impose a two-year freeze on wages.
  • Finance Minister Kjell-Olof Feldt outlines the government's plan in parliament which includes a two-year freeze on local taxes, rents and stock dividends.
  • 15 February – Failing to gain the needed support of any opposition parties, the government's economic bill is defeated 190–153. Immediately after the defeat Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson goes to the office of parliamentary speaker Thage G. Peterson to give the government's resignation.
  • 16 February
  • Finance Minister Kjell-Olof Feldt resigns from the day-old caretaker government, telling a news conference he did not have the political backing or personal will to scrap his plans and start over, instead choosing to step aside for “younger and better forces” to take his place. Odd Engström is announced as Feldt's replacement.
  • The bank employee's union and bankers’ association announce the end of their three week long labour dispute.
  • Björn Borg and his wife Loredana lose their $40,000 libel lawsuit against after the magazine alleged the latter was unfaithful.
  • 19 February – After opposition leader Carl Bildt of the Moderate Party is unable to form a centre-right coalition, Speaker Thage G. Peterson asks Ingvar Carlsson if he can form a government.
  • 23 February – Speaker Thage G. Peterson informed the Riksdag that he asked Ingvar Carlsson to form another cabinet with a vote to be held on the 26th February.
  • 26 February – The proposal to appoint Ingvar Carlsson as Prime Minister passed 175–101 with 59 abstentions. The Social Democratic Party with 156 seats won the support of the 21 seat Communist Party whilst the Centre Party and Green Party both abstained. The Moderate Party and People's Party voted against calling for immediate elections instead of in 18 months.
  • 27 February – The second cabinet of Ingvar Carlsson assumed office. Former chief of the Swedish Market Labour Board Allan Larsson is made Minister for Finance. Odd Engström who acted as Minister for Finance in the caretaker government is appointed as Deputy Prime Minister. Engström was replaced in his original position as assistant to the finance minister by Erik Åasbrink who had been State Secretary of Treasury.

July

Undated

Popular culture

Film

  • 5 February – The 25th Guldbagge Awards were presented
  • Black Jack
  • Blankt vapen (Blank weapon)
  • Den hemliga vännen (The secret friend)
  • Gjutarna (The Iron Founders)
  • God afton, Herr Wallenberg (Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg)
  • Gränslots (Border Guide)
  • Hemligheten (The Secret)
  • Hjälten (The Hero)
  • Honungsvargar (Honey wolves)
  • I hired a Contract Killer
  • I skog och mark (In the forest and on the ground)
  • Jag skall bli Sveriges Rembrandt eller dö! (I will become Sweden's Rembrandt or die!)
  • Kurt Olsson – filmen om mitt liv som mej själv (Kurt Olsson – the film about my life as myself)
  • Nils Karlsson Pyssling
  • TÃ¥g till Himlen (Train to Heaven)
  • The Match Factory Girl
  • Werther

Literature

Births

Undated

Deaths

  • 2 January – Nils Kyndel, composer and pianist (born 1905)
  • 14 January – Sten-Åke Cederhök, actor and comedian (born 1913)
  • 25 January – Åke Hedtjärn, civil engineer (born 1907)
  • 28 January – Einar Bager, artist and historian (born 1887)
  • 30 January – John Lindgren, skier and Olympian (1932) (born 1899)
  • 1 February – Lauritz Falk, actor and film director (born 1909)
  • 10 February – Knut Hansson, footballer (born 1911)
  • 11 February – Tor Bergner, poet, troubadour and composer (1913)
  • 15 February – Ulf Johanson, actor (born 1922)
  • 17 February – Eric Stolpe, actor, revue artist and singer (born 1919)
  • 18 February
  • Herman Carlson, ice hockey player and Olympian (1936) (born 1906)
  • Tor Isedal, actor (born 1924)
  • 23 February – Margareta Bergman, actress (born 1901)
  • 24 February – Aina Erlander, lecturer, wife of Tage Erlander (born 1902)
  • 27 February
  • Eric Sörenson, equestrian and Olympian (1948) (born 1913)
  • Arthur Österwall, band leader and composer (born 1910)
  • 28 February
  • Erik Anderberg, naval officer (born 1892)
  • Erik Upmark, civil servant and civil engineer (born 1904)
  • 8 March
  • Karin Kavli, actress (born 1906)
  • Asmund Arle, sculptor (born 1918)
  • 10 March – Olle Ekbladh, actor (born 1906)
  • 18 March – Birgitta Lilliehöök, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and author (born 1899)
  • 23 March – Walter Dickson, author (born 1916)
  • 25 March – Bertil Linde, ice hockey player and Olympian (1928) (born 1907)
  • 26 March – BrÅ«no Kalniņš, Russian-Swedish politician (born 1899)
  • 31 March – Knut Ansgar Nelson, Danish-Swedish Roman Catholic prelate (born 1906)
  • 7 April – Kristian Gestrin, Finnish judge and politician (born 1929)
  • 8 April – Bellan Roos, actress (born 1901)
  • 9 April – Yngve Lindgren, footballer (born 1912)
  • 11 April – Ivar Lo-Johansson, writer (born 1901)
  • 15 April – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (born 1905)
  • 17 April – Sigvard Törnqvist, equestrian, actor and composer (born 1912)
  • 22 April – Gustaf Wejnarth, Olympic runner (1924) (born 1902)
  • 24 April – Erik Eriksson, footballer (born 1914)
  • 1 May – Yvonne Floyd, screenwriter (born 1937)
  • 8 May – Severt Dennolf, Olympic long-distance runner (1948) (born 1920)
  • 12 May – Albert Öberg, Olympic long-distance runner (1912) (born 1888)
  • 18 May – Eje Thelin, trombonist (born 1938)
  • 21 May – Lily Strömberg-von Essen, Olympic tennis player (1920, 1924) (born 1896)
  • 27 May – Gunnar Lindkvist, actor and revue artist (born 1916)
  • 28 May – Emma Wiberg, damask weaver (born 1901)
  • 30 May – Egil Holmsen, film director, screenwriter, journalist, author and actor (born 1917)
  • 31 May – Elsa Hofgren, actress (born 1895)
  • 3 June – Aino Taube, actress (born 1912)
  • 5 June – Nils Brandt, Finnish-Swedish actor (born 1932)
  • 6 June – Banjo-Lasse, guitarist and banjo player (born 1902)
  • 10 June – Hanna Olsen, Olympic fencer (1924, 1928) (born 1889)
  • 13 June – Kjell Stensson, radio personality (born 1917)
  • 26 June – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish-Swedish novelist (born 1909)
  • 19 July – Ulf Qvarsebo, actor (born 1931)
  • 24 July – Harald Moberg, agronomist (born 1906)
  • 30 July – Gustaf Jonsson, Olympic cross country skier (1928, 1932) (born 1903)
  • 19 August – Thage Nordholm, artist (born 1927)
  • 26 August – Sture Ericson, Olympic modern pentathlete (1960) (born 1929)
  • 27 August – Tyra Ryman, actress (born 1902)
  • 28 August – Eva Stiberg, actress (born 1920)
  • 8 September – Sven Rosendahl, journalist and novelist (born 1913)
  • 11 September – Julius Jacobsen, Danish-Swedish composer and pianist (born 1915)
  • 18 September – Claude Loyola Allgén, composer (born 1920)
  • 25 September – Wilfred Burns, composer (born 1917)
  • 6 October – Märta Dorff, actress (born 1909)
  • 8 October – Eric Wennström, Olympic hurdler (1928) (born 1909)
  • 9 October – Lars Thörn, Olympic Sailor (1956, 1964) (born 1904)
  • 14 October – Carin Swensson, actress and singer (born 1905)
  • 9 November – Dora Söderberg, actress (born 1899)
  • 19 November – Lennart Lljung, general (born 1921)
  • 20 November – Bengt Odhner, diplomat (born 1918)
  • 23 November – Ragnar Thorngren, jockey (born 1915)
  • 28 November – Birger Bohlin, palaeontologist (born 1898)
  • 5 December – Kai Curry-Lindahl, zoologist (born 1917)
  • 21 December – Magda Julin, figure skater, Olympic champion (1920) (born 1894)
  • 22 December – Henning Sundesson, Olympic long-distance runner (1936) (born 1909)
  • 27 December – Hubert Persson, Olympic wrestler (1952) (born 1918)

Undated

  • Antal Biró, Hungarian-Swedish artist (born 1907)

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