1966 in Sweden

← 1965 1964 1963 1966 in Sweden → 1967 1968 1969
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	Other events of 1966 Timeline of Swedish history

Events from the year 1966 in Sweden.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustaf VI Adolf
• Prime Minister – Tage Erlander

Popular culture

Music

• Grimascher och telegram , album by Cornelis Vreeswijk

Births

• 19 January – Yukiko Duke, journalist and translator
• 5 August – Håkan Algotsson, ice hockey goaltender. ^[1]
• 8 September – Mats Arkhem, politician ^[2]
• 12 October – Christian Due-Boje, ice hockey player. ^[3]
• 12 November – Anette Norberg, curler ^[4]

Deaths

Gösta Åsbrink.

• 19 April – Gösta Åsbrink, gymnast and modern pentathlete (born 1881). ^[5]
• 3 October – Rolf Maximilian Sievert, medical physicist (born 1896) ^[6]
• 11 November – Carl Jonsson, tug-of-war competitor (born 1885). ^[7]

References

1. "Håkan Algotsson". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
2. "Mats Arkhem". Riksdagen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 August 2025.
3. "Christian Due-Boje". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
4. "Anette Norberg - Player Profile - Curling". Eurosport UK. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
5. "Gösta Åsbrink". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
6. Sekiya, Masaru; Yamasaki, Michio (2016). "Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896–1966): Father of radiation protection". Radiological Physics and Technology. 9 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1007/s12194-015-0330-5. PMID   26220621.
7. "Carl Jonsson". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2014.