* 2002 – Andres Küng, Swedish politician and journalist ( b. 1945 )

* 1953 – Cats Falck, Swedish journalist

* 1943 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian ( d. 2009 )

* 1969 – Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Swedish author and journalist

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.

The word moped was coined by Swedish journalist Harald Nielsen in 1952, as a portmanteau of motor and pedal.

* Helle Klein, Swedish journalist

Before becoming a novelist, she was a journalist on various Swedish newspapers and magazines, including Svenska Dagbladet.

He also worked with Swedish journalist Bertil Torekull on the book Leading by Design: The IKEA Story.

In 2011, journalist Elisabeth Åsbrink revealed that the Swedish secret service created a file on Kamprad already in 1943 titled " Nazi " and that Kamprad in an interview in 2010 told her: " Per Engdahl is a great man, and I will maintain that as long as I live ".

Swedish journalist Jan-Olof Bengtsson, who visited the Swedish UN battalion in Famagusta port and saw the sealed-off part of the town from the battalion ’ s observation post, called the area a ' ghost town '.

Eugen Semitjov ( 1923 – 1987 ) was a Swedish journalist, author and artist of Russian descent who was born in Sweden.

Rumours occasionally circulated portraying Frame as a contender for the Nobel Prize in literature, most notably in 1998, after a journalist spotted her name at the top of a list later revealed to have been in alphabetical order, and again five years later, in 2003, when Åsa Beckman, the influential chief literary critic at the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, wrongly predicted that Frame would win the prestigious prize.

* Barbro Alving ( born 1909 ), Swedish journalist

* August 27-Vendela Hebbe, Swedish journalist and novelist ( born 1808 )

* October 5-Stig Dagerman, Swedish author & journalist ( died 1954 )

* September 9-Wendela Hebbe, Swedish playwright, journalist and novelist ( died 1899 )

Axel Johan Lille ( 28 March 1848, Helsinki – 28 June 1921 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish journalist and politician and the main founder of the Swedish People's Party ( Svenska folkpartiet, SFP ) and its leader 1907 – 1917.

* 10 Andres Küng, 57, Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin.

Carl Hamilton was created by author and journalist Jan Guillou after he had been sentenced to prison for espionage – for exposing a secret spy organization inside the Swedish military ( see the IB affair ).

Klas Pontus Arnoldson ( 27 October 1844 – 20 February 1916 ) was a Swedish author, journalist, politician, and committed pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908.

In late 2006, the newspaper's own journalist Peter Kadhammar directed criticism at the fact that his own paper appears to treat the love life of Swedish tabloid celebrity Linda Rosing as equally important to the war in Iraq.

Paul Le Flem, with his wife, Jeanne ( Even ), is the grandfather of actress Marika Green and great-grandfather of actress Eva Green by his daughter, Jeanne, who married Swedish journalist Lennart Green.

Mats Svegfors ( born 1948 ), is a Swedish journalist and politician.

* 1978 – Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter and bassist ( The Hives )

* 1793 – Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet ( d. 1866 )

* The Hives, Swedish Rock Band, Pelle Almqvist and Niklas Almqvist

Howlin ' Pelle Almqvist of The Hives covered the song with some members of another Swedish Band, Randy for a Joe Strummer Tribute concert at The Debaser in Stockholm.

Sven Lidman left his previous employer in 1955 and took this new idea to the Swedish publishing house Almqvist & Wiksell, but only after also getting a letter of intent from German publisher Bertelsmann was he able to get his employer started.

Howlin ' Pelle Almqvist ( born 29 May 1978 in Fagersta, Västmanland County ) is the lead singer of Swedish garage rock band The Hives.

Almqvist used to be the boyfriend of Maria Anderson ( lead vocalist of the Swedish rock band Sahara Hotnights ) until a 2006 breakup.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

In the Prose Edda Snorri Sturluson quotes many stanzas attributed to Bragi Boddason the old ( Bragi Boddason inn gamli ), a court poet who served several Swedish kings, Ragnar Lodbrok, Östen Beli and Björn at Hauge who reigned in the first half of the 9th century.

:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.

People who are deeply in debt can obtain a debt arrangement procedure ( Swedish: skuldsanering ).

Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

" Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: " Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist ".

The synthesis and characterization of elemental chlorine occurred in 1774 by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who called it " dephlogisticated muriatic acid air ," having thought he synthesized the oxide obtained from the hydrochloric acid.

A draugr, draug or ( Icelandic ) draugur ( original Old Norse plural draugar, as used here, not " draugrs "), or draugen ( Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, meaning " the draug "), also known as aptrganga (" afturgöngur " in modern Icelandic ) ( literally " after-walker ", or " one who walks after death ") is an undead creature from Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology.

Further pressure was brought on the makers of the film, the Film i Väst film studio, who are partly financed by Swedish local authorities, including Åmål.

Swedish band Broder Daniel, who contributed three English language songs to the movie, released an EP titled Fucking Åmål.

Modern Germanic peoples are the Scandinavians ( Norwegians, Swedish, Danish, Icelanders, and Faroese ), Germans, Austrians, Alemannic Swiss, Liechtensteiners, Luxembourgers, the Dutch, Flemings, Afrikaners, Frisians, the English and others who still speak languages derived from the ancestral Germanic dialects.

Nasum, who emerged from the Swedish death metal scene, became a popular group, addressing political topics from a personal perspective.

The formal discovery of the element was made in 1895 by two Swedish chemists, Per Teodor Cleve and Nils Abraham Langlet, who found helium emanating from the uranium ore cleveite.

His masseur, Felix Kersten, who had moved to Sweden, acted as an intermediary in negotiations with Count Folke Bernadotte, head of the Swedish Red Cross.

This was the outcome of the Russo-Swedish War from 1741 to 1743 where the Russian Empress made the imposition of her relative Adolf Frederick as the heir to the Swedish Throne, to succeed Frederick I who lacked legitimate issue, as a peace condition.

The Baltic expeditions runestones # Gs 13 | runestone Gs 13 documents an early 11th century Swedish Viking who died in Finland, perhaps during a raid.

It was the Swedish regent, Birger Jarl, who established Swedish rule in Finland through the Second Swedish Crusade, most often dated to 1249, which was aimed at Tavastians who had stopped being Christian again.