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1940 in Sweden
Sweden-related events during the year of 1940
Events from the year 1940 in Sweden
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- 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.
- 22 January – Tobias Berggren, poet.[1]
- 12 May – Lill Lindfors, Finnish-Swedish singer[2]
- 11 June – Gunnar Harding, poet.[3]
- 18 October – Carl von Essen, fencer.[4]
- 12 October – Gösta Pettersson, cyclist
- 10 March – Agnes von Krusenstjerna, writer (born 1894)[5]
- 16 March – Selma Lagerlöf, writer (born 1858)[6]
- 24 November – Janne Lundblad, horse rider (born 1877).[7]
- 12 October – Ann-Margret Holmgren, feminist and pacifist writer (born 1850)
- Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Tobias Berggren". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- "Recordings by Lill Lindfors | Now available to stream and purchase at Naxos". www.naxos.com. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
- Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Gunnar Harding". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- "Carl von Essen". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- "Agnes Julie Fredrika von Krusenstjerna". Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- "Selma Lagerlöf | Swedish author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
- "Janne Lundblad". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
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