Events from the year 1959 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Gustaf VI Adolf Prime Minister – Tage Erlander
Events The Lycksele Zoo established
Popular culture
Film 26 January – Fröken Chic released 13 November – Raggare! released
Births 8 January – Björn Jilsén, handball player. 9 January – Tommy Holmgren, football player 27 January – Göran Hägglund, politician 24 April – Ronnie Båthman, tennis player Johan Petri, theatre director, dramatist, and theatre scholar 22 May – Lotta Falkenbäck, figure skater. 23 May – Daniel Alfredson, film director 14 June – Håkan Södergren, ice hockey player 3 July – Jens Nordqvist, sprint canoer. 29 July – Jöran Hägglund, politician 16 August – Gunilla Röör, actress 23 August – Christina Herrström, screenwriter 30 October – Glenn Hysén, football player and manager 13 December – Staffan William-Olsson, jazz musician
Deaths
1 March – Ragnar Malm, cyclist (born 1893). 8 March – Olle Hjortzberg, painter and illustrator (born 1872) 20 March – Einar Svensson, ice hockey player (born 1894) 26 March – Frans Lindstrand, wrestler (born 1883). 11 May – Arvid Spångberg, diver (born 1890) 20 July – Karl Ansén, football player (born 1887). 19 November – Douglas Håge, actor (born 1898) 7 December – Nils Bolander, bishop (born 1902) 11 December – Gustaf Weidel, gymnast (born 1890).
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