Events from the year 1941 in Sweden

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority and power i ...

– Gustav V *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

– Per Albin Hansson

Events

* 20 January - The

Trolleybus A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or trol ...

is introduced to Stockholm. * 25 June - 163rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) starts to travel through Sweden.

Births

* 3 February -

Monica Nordquist Eva Gun Monica Nordquist Graffman (born ''Nordquist'' 3 February 1941 in Bromma, Stockholm - 24 June 2017) was a Swedish actress, well known for her roles as Madicken's mother and Fia's mother in the 1973 TV series ''Den vita stenen''. All those ...

Deaths

* 3 January - Henning Ohlson, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1884) * 8 April –

Gulli Petrini Gulli Charlotta Petrini ( Stockholm, 30 September 1867 – Stockholm, 8 April 1941) was a Swedish Physicist, writer, suffragette, women's rights activist and politician. She was the chairperson of the local branch of the National Association for ...

, women's rights activist (b. 1867) * 3 May –

Selma Ek Selma Ek (3 September 1856 – 3 May 1941) was a Swedish operatic soprano who had an active international career from the 1870s through the 1890s. Like Lilli Lehmann and Lillian Nordica, she was one of those universally talented singers of the lat ...

, operatic soprano (b. 1856) * 15 May –

Anna Lindhagen Anna Lindhagen (7 April 1870 in Stockholm – 15 May 1941 in Stockholm) was a Swedish politician (Social Democrat), social reformer and women's rights activist. In collaboration with Anna Åbergsson, she was a leading force in the introduction ...

, politician (b. 1870)

References

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