2015 in Sweden

The following lists events that happened in 2015 in Sweden.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Stefan Löfven

Events

• 15 June: Lisa Holm's body discovery
• 10 August: VästerÃ¥s IKEA stabbing attack
• 18 March: 2015 Gothenburg pub shooting
• 23 May: MÃ¥ns Zelmerlöw's song Heroes wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria.
• 22 October: Trollhättan school stabbing
• 12 November: Shopping mall Mall of Scandinavia is inaugurated in Solna.
• The Sweden Democrats announced that they would break ties with its youth league Sweden Democratic Youth for its Radical Ultranationalism.

Deaths

• 11 January – Anita Ekberg, actress (b. 1931).
• 26 March – Tomas Tranströmer, Nobel poet and translator (b. 1931).
• 30 April – Lennart Bodström, politician (b. 1928).
• 4 June – Bengt Berndtsson, footballer (b. 1933).
• 5 October – Henning Mankell, author (b. 1948).
• 21 November – Linda Haglund, 59, short-distance runner (b. 1956).
• 19 December – Karin Söder, politician (b. 1928).
• 22 December – Peter Lundblad, 65, singer (b. 1950).

See also

• 2015 in Swedish television

References