* 1973 – Johan Norberg, Swedish author

* 1967 – Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish actress and author

* 1941 – Karin Boye, Swedish author ( b. 1900 )

In 1987, Andersson wrote music and co-produced the soundtrack with Anders Eljas for the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, based on Swedish author Astrid Lindgrens Mio, my Mio.

** based on a novel by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf.

From Children of the Forest ( 1910 ) by Swedish author and illustrator Elsa Beskow.

* 1874 – Elsa Beskow, Swedish author ( d. 1953 )

He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, i. e. its spokesman, from 1999 to June 2009, when he was succeeded by Swedish author and historian Peter Englund.

* 1976 – Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer ( b. 1890 )

* 2007 – Povel Ramel, Swedish singer, pianist, composer, and author ( b. 1922 )

According to the Swedish naturalist and author Bengt Sjögren ( 1980 ), present day beliefs in lake monsters such as the Loch Ness Monster are associated with the old legends of kelpies.

* 1967 – Nina Björk, Swedish activist and author

* 1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish author and poet Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1978 )

* 1858 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel laureate ( d. 1940 )

* 1969 – Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Swedish author and journalist

The Swedish author Mirjam Tapper has edited a book on Rilke's stay in Paris, where she reflected on the many addresses Rilke lived at and tried to find the correlation between his stay there and his poems.

* 1907 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and author ( d. 1968 )

* 1961 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1905 )

Madame Chiang appears as a minor character in the 2012 novel The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson.

In an interview with Richardson in 1979, Danish historian Mikael Venge, author of the article about Christian II in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon said: " I think you ought to protest the next time the Swedish radio claims anything so utterly unfounded that could be understood as if the Danes approved of the Stockholm bloodbath.

Another Swedish author who had great influence on the perception of the Vikings was Esaias Tegnér, member of the Geatish Society, who wrote a modern version of Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna, which became widely popular in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and Germany.

Zachris Topelius (; 14 January 1818 – 12 March 1898 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish.

** Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author ( b. 1906 )

" The Swedish playwright August Strindberg attacked the play in his volume of short stories Getting Married ( 1884 ).

in Stockholm 4 July 2008, and on Swedish television on 5 August.

He was married to Swedish actress Pernilla August from 1991 to 1997.

In Berlin, Munch involved himself in an international circle of writers, artists and critics, including the Swedish dramatist and leading intellectual August Strindberg, whom he painted in 1892.

* 1958 – Pernilla August, Swedish actress

* 1849 – August Strindberg, Swedish writer ( d. 1912 )

His son, Karl Wilhelm Böttiger ( August 15, 1790-November 26, 1862 ; not to be confused with the Swedish writer Carl Wilhelm Böttiger ), was a historian and biographer of his father.

The brothers were in great disagreement and Frederick II negotiated a treaty with Ivan IV on August 7, 1562 in order to help his brother obtain more land and stall further Swedish advance.

In 1897 Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée and two companions tried to reach the North Pole in the hydrogen balloon Örnen (" Eagle "), but were stranded north of Kvitøya, the northeasternmost part of the Svalbard archipelago, and perished on this lonely island.

* 1872 – August Nilsson, Swedish athlete ( d. 1921 )

On August 28, 2009, a Swedish public news outlet reported that Romanov family jewelry, found in 2008 in the archives of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, was returned.

** August Strindberg, Swedish playwright and painter ( b. 1849 ).

* 1187: In August, the Swedish royal and commercial center Sigtuna is attacked by Baltic-Finnish raiders from Couronia and Estonia.

* August 13 – Niklas Sundin, Swedish musician

* August 25 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1900 )

* August 7 – Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist ( b. 1779 )

* August 6 – Christian Eric Fahlcrantz, Swedish writer ( b. 1790 )

* August 3 – Patrik Isaksson, Swedish singer and songwriter

* August 22 – Anders Zorn, Swedish painter ( b. 1860 )

* August 29 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress ( d. 1982 )

* August 3 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1899 )

* August 15 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1903 )

* August 20 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress ( b. 1929 )