1969 in Sweden

Decades:	1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;
See also:	Other events of 1969; Timeline of Swedish history;

Events from the year 1969 in Sweden

Incumbents

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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