2006 in Sweden

Events from the year 2006 in Sweden

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Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2006 Timeline of Swedish history

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Göran Persson, Fredrik Reinfeldt

Events

• Love and War, an animated short film is released.^{[citation needed]}
• Swegon Air Academy is founded.^[1]

Publications

• The Girl Who Played with Fire, novel by Stieg Larsson.
• 26 October – The Swedish Metapedia was founded by Anders Lagerström.

Deaths

Gert Fredriksson won gold medal in K-2 1000m together with Sven-Olof Sjödelius at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

• 20 January
  • Sven Fagerberg, writer (born 1918)
  • Dave Lepard, singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1980)
• 5 July – Gert Fredriksson, canoer, Olympic champion (born 1919).^[2]
• 27 July – Göran Printz-Påhlson, writer (born 1931)
• 17 September – Hans Berglund, canoer (born 1918).^[3]
• 4 October – Gunnar Åkerlund, canoer (born 1923).^[4]

See also

• 2006 in Swedish television