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Events from the year 1939 in Sweden
Incumbents[edit]
Events[edit]
- 31 August – The Sandö Bridge collapsed while under construction, and 18 workers were killed in the event.[1]
- The secret intelligence agency C-byrån established.[2]
- The Åhlinska skolan is closed.
Literature[edit]
- Pelle Svanslös på äventyr by Gösta Knutsson, the first book in the Pelle Svanslös children's book series
Births[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 12 January – Hugo Jahnke, gymnast (born 1886).[3]
- 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).[4]
- 18 December – Bruno Liljefors, painter (born 1860)
Full date missing[edit]
- Olof Olsson, politician (born 1872).[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "När Sandöbron över Ångermanälven rasade". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). 15 June 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
- ^ Pryser, Tore (1995). "C-byrån". In Dahl; Hjeltnes; Nøkleby; Ringdal; Sørensen (eds.). Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. ISBN 82-02-14138-9.
- ^ "Hugo Jahnke". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
- ^ "Åke Lundeberg". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
- ^ "Olof Olsson". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 June 2019.
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