Former Social Democratic minister Leif Pagrotsky stated that internal fighting, authoritarianism and perceived aggressiveness as well as a loss of appeal to the middle class and city inhabitants contributed to the election loss.

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Famous supporters of the club include Marcus and Peter Birro, Björn Afzelius and Leif Pagrotsky.

* Leif Erickson, Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, was born in Cashton.

It is believed that Leif was born around the 970s — the son of mother Thjodhild and father Erik the Red, an explorer and outlaw from Western Norway.

Leif had two known sons: Thorgils, born to noblewoman Thorgunna in the Hebrides ; and Thorkell, who succeeded Leif as chieftain of the Greenland settlement.

* Leif Enger, author of the best-selling novel Peace Like a River was born and raised in Osakis.

Leif Garrett ( born Leif Per Nervik ; November 8, 1961 ) is an American singer, actor and television personality.

Leif Ove Andsnes ( born 7 April 1970, Karmøy ) is a Norwegian pianist and an ardent champion of the works of Edvard Grieg.

Leif Johansson, born in 1951, is a Swedish businessman.

Leif Segerstam ( born 2 March 1944 in Vaasa ) is a Finnish conductor and composer.

* Leif Tilden ( born 1964 ), American actor

Leif Andreas Larsen, known as " Shetlands Larsen ", ( 9 January 1906 – 12 October 1990 ), was born in Bergen.

She is married to Martin Cullberg, a Swedish lawyer and partner in the Leif Silbersky law firm, and they have a daughter, Olivia, born on 26 February 2009.

Leif Magnus (" Ölme ") Johansson ( born 10 November 1971 in Ölme, Värmland ) is a former Swedish football defender.

* October 27 – Leif Erickson, American actor ( d. 1986 )

* October 9 – Leif Erikson lands in L ' Anse aux Meadows, Canada.

The date October 9 has been used to remember Leif Ericson in the United States.

In 1929, the Wisconsin Legislature passed a bill to make October 9 " Leif Erikson Day " in the state ; the bill was signed by Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr. in May of the same year.

In 1964 the United States Congress authorized and requested the president to proclaim October 9 of each year as " Leif Erikson Day ".

Leif Andreas Larsen DSO, DSC, CGM, DSM and Bar ( 9 January 1906 – 12 October 1990 ), popularly known as ShetlandsLarsen, was a Norwegian sailor and the most highly decorated allied naval officer of World War II.

On 19 October 1991, Bingolotto premiered nationwide on TV4 with the popular Leif " Loket " Olsson as show host.

The opera was translated to Swedish by Leif Janzon and premiered by the Piteå Chamber Opera on 15 October 2011 at Acusticum in Piteå ( Sweden ).

Leif Erikson Day is an annual American observance which occurs on October 9.

October 9 is not associated with any particular event in Leif Erikson's life.

Some counterexamples are: Andrzej Panufnik ( 10 ; if one includes two early lost symphonies, 12 ), Hans Werner Henze ( 10 ; his ninth symphony was actually choral ), Eduard Tubin ( 10, died writing his eleventh symphony ), William Schuman ( 10 ; his first two were withdrawn ), Alun Hoddinott ( 10 ), David Diamond ( 11 ), Joachim Raff ( 11, as well as an early destroyed one ), Edmund Rubbra ( 11 ; his ninth symphony was choral ), Robert Simpson ( 11 ; his planned final 12th symphony was to be choral ), Heitor Villa-Lobos and Darius Milhaud ( 12 each ), Vagn Holmboe ( 13, as well as four additional symphonies for strings alone ), Roy Harris ( 13 ; he was more superstitious about the number 13 than the number 9, and so labelled his 13th as 14th ), Glenn Branca ( 14, although Branca's definition of " symphony " is somewhat untraditional ), Gloria Coates ( 15, although she only recognized and numbered her first six symphonies as " symphonies " after completing her 7th ), Dmitri Shostakovich ( 15 ), Rued Langgaard ( 16 plus an unnumbered choral symphony, Sinfonia Interna ), Henry Cowell ( 17 ), Allan Pettersson ( 17 ), Lev Knipper ( 20 ), Jānis Ivanovs ( 21 ), Mieczysław Weinberg ( 22 ), Nikolai Myaskovsky ( 27 ), Havergal Brian ( 32 ), Alan Hovhaness ( 67 ), Derek Bourgeois ( 72 ), and Leif Segerstam ( 253 ).

In 1934, IL 4A was extended east into Chicago along 55th Street and Garfield Boulevard to South Park Boulevard ( now called Martin Luther King Jr. Drive ), where it turned north to end at Leif Erickson Drive ( now called Lake Shore Drive ), which was US 12 / US 20 / US 41 at the time.

| 22692 Carfrekahl || || Caroline and Frederikke Kahl, granddaughters of Danish astronomer Leif Kahl Kristensen, a friend of the discoverer ( the latter are both members of IAU Commission 20, Positions and Motions of Minor Planets, Comets and Satellites )

He would also participate and be managed by his father at the WWF's United Kingdom-exclusive pay-per-view event One Night Only on September 20, 1997, facing off against and defeating Leif Cassidy.

Michael Lloyd became the Vice President of A & R at MGM, aged 20, in 1969, and went on to win a Grammy Award with Lou Rawls, to produce hits for the Osmonds, Shaun Cassidy and Leif Garrett, and to produce the best-selling soundtrack to Dirty Dancing.

Shahriar Badiei and Leif Holmlid from the University of Gothenburg have shown in 2004 that condensed metallic states made of excited hydrogen atoms ( Rydberg matter ) are effective promoters to metallic hydrogen.

The featured string quartet is Hvila from the Gothenburg Symphony, and the female choir is Leif Strands Damkör from Gothenburg as well.

An ingenious navigation method is detailed in Viking Navigation Using the Sunstone, Polarized Light and the Horizon Board by Leif K. Karlsen.

Thorstein, Leif's brother, marries Gudrid, widow of the captain rescued by Leif, then leads a third expedition to bring home Thorvald's body, but is driven off course and spends the whole summer wandering the Atlantic.

Leviathan refers to the Biblical sea monster Leviathan, which is a potential danger to Hagbard's submarine Leif Erickson ( from the name of the Icelandic discoverer of America ).

In the same year the sailing expedition of Christopher Columbus resulted in what is usually claimed to be the first European sighting of the New World, although Leif Ericson is often regarded as the first European to land in the New World, 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

L ' Anse aux Meadows remains the only widely accepted instance of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact and is notable for its possible connection with the attempted colony of Vinland established by Leif Ericson around the same time period or, more broadly, with Norse exploration of the Americas.

There is no evidence that Leif was aware of his father's death until he got back to Greenland.

Leif is described as a strong man of striking appearance, who was wise and considerate.

Leif is last mentioned alive in 1019, and by 1025 he had passed on his chieftaincy of Eiriksfjord to another son, Thorkell.

Leif Zeilon is a Swedish politician, and is one one of the founders of the Sweden Democrats () and Bevara Sverige Svenskt.

), who wrote the song Route 66, and Dawn Lyn is the younger sister of popular 1970s idol Leif Garrett.

* Leif Ericson Viking Ship LEVS is a 501 ( c ) 3 nonprofit educational organization dedicated to the study, education and promotion of the fact that Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot upon and explore the North American Continent and of Vikings in general, their times and travels throughout the world.

In the first few years of his career Garrett performed under the name of " Leif Per ", however casting agents found the name difficult to pronounce ( it is pronounced the same way as " pair " or " pear ").

His boat is the one Leif Eriksson acquired about 15 years later for Leif's famed landing on Vineland.

He is son to Leif Amble-Næss and Maritta Marke.

RDOS is an open source DOS designed by Leif Ekblad for i386 embedded platforms.

North America is named Valhalla, and was colonised in the first millennium A. D. by the Vikings, led by Leif Ericson ; the Roman Empire is known as Reme instead, after the other twin in the story of Romulus and Remus ; the planet Venus is orbited by a moon like Earth's Luna.

Although it is not mentioned in “ The Saga of Eirik the Red ,” according to the “ Saga of the Greenlanders ,” at the time Gudrid was married to a Norwegian merchant named Thorir, who died from illness after being rescued by Leif Eirikson.