1969_in_Sweden
1969 in Sweden
Sweden-related events during the year of 1969
Events from the year 1969 in Sweden
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National level
- Monarch – Gustaf VI Adolf
- Prime Minister – Tage Erlander until 14 October, then Olof Palme.
October
- October 1
- In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Leader of the Social Democratic Worker`s Party, replacing Tage Erlander as Prime Minister on October 14.[1]
- 5 December – Swedish public television broadcaster Sveriges Radio-TV launches its second channel, TV2.[2]
- 16 January - Per "Dead" Ohlin, vocalist and lyricist (died 1991).
- 3 February - Paolo Roberto, boxer and actor.
- 5 February - Joakim Andersson, ice hockey player.
- 12 February - Anna Pernilla Torndahl, composer, artist and singer better known by her stage name Meja.
- 23 March - Fredrik Nyberg, alpine skier.
- 5 April - Pontus Kåmark, footballer.
- 20 May - Camilla Rinaldo Miller, politician.
- 19 July - Anders Lindström, musician
- 25 July - Mats Söderlund, singer better known by his stage name Günther.
- 6 October - Mattias Eklundh, musician.
- 1 January — Bruno Söderström, pole vaulter and javelin thrower (born 1881)
- 28 March — Kurt Petter, German physician, youth leader and educational administrator (born 1909).
- 7 June — Olivia Nordgren, politician (born 1880)
- 23 June - Albert Viksten, writer (born 1898).
- 31 July - Harry Ahlin, film actor (born 1900).
- 15 September - Åke Grönberg, film actor (born 1914).
- 1 October - Gunnar Andersson, footballer (born 1928).
- 16 November - Marcel Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (born 1886).
- Misgeld, Klaus; Molin, Karl (2010-11-01). Creating Social Democracy: A Century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in Sweden. Penn State Press. p. 450. ISBN 978-0-271-04344-9.
- "SVT:s historia" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
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