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"2026-06-13", "reported_date": "2026-06-13", "published_at": "2026-06-13T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "music and artist management", "artists", "journalists", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Görel Hanser, Music and artist management.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/06/G_rel_Hanser_p1654070.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6rel_Hanser" }, { "name": "Görel Johnsen dead at age 77, Music and artist management", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gorel-johnsen", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 77, "death_date": "2026-06-13", "reported_date": "2026-06-13", "published_at": "2026-06-12T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "music and artist management", "artists", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Görel Johnsen, Music and artist management.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6rel_Johnsen" }, { "name": "Nikke Ström dead at age 75, Musician", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/nikke-strom", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 75, "death_date": "2026-06-08", "reported_date": "2026-06-08", "published_at": "2026-06-08T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musician", "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Nikke Ström, Musician.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/06/Nikke_Str_m.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikke_Str%C3%B6m", "cause_of_death": { "label": "complications from heart surgery", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-complications-from-heart-surgery" } }, { "name": "Hans Chrunak dead at age 76, Swedish swimming coach", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/hans-chrunak", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 76, "death_date": "2026-06-06", "reported_date": "2026-06-06", "published_at": "2026-06-06T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "swedish swimming coach", "athletes", "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Hans Chrunak, Swedish swimming coach.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Chrunak", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Cancer", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-cancer-cause" } }, { "name": "Sune Larsson dead at age 95, Swedish cross-country skier", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/sune-larsson", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [ { "source_type": "news_confirmation", "publisher": "sok.se", "url": "https://sok.se/idrottare/idrottare/s/sune-larsson.html", "relationship": "confirms death", "title": "Sune Larsson" } ], "age": 95, "death_date": "2026-05-31", "reported_date": "2026-05-31", "published_at": "2026-05-31T15:57:57+01:00", "occupation": [ 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"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Zilliacus" }, { "name": "Peter Nobel dead at age 94, Swedish human rights lawyer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/peter-nobel", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 94, "death_date": "2026-05-26", "reported_date": "2026-05-26", "published_at": "2026-05-26T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "swedish human rights lawyer", "lawyers" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Peter Nobel, Swedish human rights lawyer.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Nobel" }, { "name": "Mats Hellström dead at age 84, minister for foreign trade, minister of agriculture", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/mats-hellstrom", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 84, "death_date": "2026-05-24", "reported_date": "2026-05-24", "published_at": "2026-05-24T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Mats Hellström, the Swedish politician who served as minister for foreign trade from 1983 to 1986 and minister of agriculture from 1986 to 1991, died on May 24, 2026. He was 84. A Social Democratic politician, Hellström also held other senior public roles in Sweden, including service as ambassador to Germany from 1996 to 2001 and as governor of Stockholm County from 2002 to 2006. 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Known as \"Jojje\" Wadenius, he was a multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer who was active as a studio and session guitarist and bassist, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a founder-member of the Swedish groups Made in Sweden and Solar Plexus, and later moved to the United States to serve as lead guitarist of Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1972 to 1975. Wadenius was born in Stockholm and attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School. 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Jonsson also served as guest host on the radio programme Sommar.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busk_Margit_Jonsson" }, { "name": "Christina Scherling dead at age 85, Swedish Olympic speed skater", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/christina-scherling", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [ { "source_type": "news_confirmation", "publisher": "olympedia.org", "url": "https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/82287", "relationship": "confirms death", "title": "Christina Lindblom-Scherling" } ], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-04-24", "reported_date": "2026-04-24", "published_at": "2026-04-24T16:38:55+01:00", "occupation": [ "swedish olympic speed skater", "other" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Christina Scherling, Swedish Olympic speed skater.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Christina_Scherling_p1655962.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Scherling" }, { "name": "Lena Maria Gårdenäs 79 Swedish singer and actress dies", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lena-maria-gardenas", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "death_date": "2026-04-21", "reported_date": "2026-04-21", "published_at": "2026-04-21T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Lena Maria Gårdenäs, the Swedish singer and actress, died on April 21, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Brännkyrka, a suburb of Stockholm, in 1947, she moved to Helsingborg at the age of five. She began her career as the lead singer of Rainy Day Women in 1966, later sang with Lena Maria & Sweet Wine in the 1970s, and performed with Rockfolket in a barshow at Bachu Wapen in 1978. In the early 1980s, she worked with Janne Loffe Carlsson at Berns salonger in Stockholm and toured in Sweden with Eva Rydberg, Janne Lucas and Jerry Williams. 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Kruskopf served as director of the Nordic Art Centre near Helsinki, assistant director at the Finnish National Opera, culture editor at the Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet, and art history professor at the University of Tromsø. In 1984, he curated an exhibition at the Mingei International Museum in California. 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Claesson died in Varberg, Sweden.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Claesson" }, { "name": "Kristian Gerner Swedish historian and author dead at age 83", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/kristian-gerner", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-04-02", "reported_date": "2026-04-02", "published_at": "2026-04-02T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Kristian Gerner died on April 2, 2026. He was a Swedish historian and author.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian_Gerner" }, { "name": "Per Hegna Norwegian tennis player dead at age 80", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/per-hegna", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 80, "death_date": "2026-03-22", "reported_date": "2026-03-22", "published_at": "2026-03-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Norway", "Sweden" ], "description": "Per Hegna, a Norwegian professional tennis player, died on March 22, 2026, at the age of 80. A native of Oslo, he played out of the Berg Tennisklubb and won 26 national championships, including eight outdoor and six indoor singles titles. His Davis Cup career for Norway began in 1962 and included 17 ties, with 15 wins across singles and doubles, though most of his appearances came between 1973 and 1983. Hegna also played collegiate tennis in the United States for the University of Wyoming and competed in Grand Prix tournaments during the 1970s, reaching a career-high singles ranking of 180. At the 1976 Swedish Open, he reached the quarter-finals after upsetting Juan Gisbert and Julián Ganzábal.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Hegna" }, { "name": "Ove Pihl Swedish painter and art director dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ove-pihl", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-03-17", "reported_date": "2026-03-17", "published_at": "2026-03-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artists", "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Ove Pihl, a Swedish painter and art director, died on March 17, 2026. He was also a Swedish art director, book publisher and graphic designer, and was best known as the founder of the advertising agency Falk & Pihl and the publishing companies Atlantis and Page One Publishing. Pihl studied at Beckman’s School of Design in Stockholm and the School of Visual Arts in New York, and later worked in advertising, including campaigns for the shift to right-hand traffic in Sweden and for clients such as Gulf, Semper AB and Expressen. 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She was best known for popularizing the term Swedish death cleaning, the practice of decluttering and giving away possessions to spare loved ones the task later in life.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Margareta_Magnusson.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margareta_Magnusson" }, { "name": "Jan Holmlund Swedish Olympic ski jumper dead at age 68", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jan-holmlund", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 68, "death_date": "2026-03-11", "reported_date": "2026-03-11", "published_at": "2026-03-11T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Jan Holmlund, a Swedish ski jumper who competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics, died on March 11, 2026, at the age of 68. Born in Gällivare on March 29, 1957, he took part in both the normal hill and large hill events at the 1980 Games.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Holmlund" }, { "name": "Gerda Antti Swedish writer dead at age 96", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gerda-antti", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 96, "death_date": "2026-03-06", "reported_date": "2026-03-06", "published_at": "2026-03-06T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Gerda Antti, a Swedish writer and politician, died on March 6, 2026, at the age of 96. Born on August 20, 1929, in Övertorneå, Norrbotten County, Sweden, she was a member of the Centre Party and served as a local lay assessor. She died in Kisa, Östergötland County, Sweden.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Antti" }, { "name": "William Thoresson Swedish gymnast dead at age 93", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/william-thoresson", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 93, "death_date": "2026-03-04", "reported_date": "2026-03-04", "published_at": "2026-03-04T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "William Thoresson, a Swedish gymnast, died on March 4, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in Gothenburg on May 31, 1932, he competed at the 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events. He won gold in the floor exercise at the 1952 Games and silver in the same event in 1956, and added a bronze medal on the floor at the 1954 World Championships. 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Morlocks disbanded in 1993, later re-formed in 1997 with a different lineup, and issued the demo Through the Waking World in 1998. That release led to a record deal with Nangijala Records, and the debut album ...For Your Pleasure? followed in 2001.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/J._Strauss.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Strauss" }, { "name": "Gustav Kraitz", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gustav-kraitz", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 99, "death_date": "2026-03-01", "reported_date": "2026-03-01", "published_at": "2026-03-01T03:55:02+01:00", "occupation": [ "artists" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Swedish ceramicist and sculptor", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Kraitz" }, { "name": "Lars Lallerstedt Swedish industrial designer dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lars-lallerstedt", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-02-28", "reported_date": "2026-02-28", "published_at": "2026-02-28T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Lars Lallerstedt, a Swedish industrial designer and pioneer in the field in Sweden, died on February 28, 2026. Born on June 5, 1938, he worked across a range of design areas, including barn-construction concepts for Alfa Laval from 1984, medical appliances, consumer products, hi-fi systems, telephones, radio and telecommunication equipment, and open stoves. He was engaged by Sonab from 1969 to 1974, where he designed minimalistic loudspeakers and amplifiers. Lallerstedt also helped found industrial design education at Konstfack in Stockholm, lectured there from 1976, served as Sweden’s first professor of industrial design from 1986 to 1992, and headed the school from 1999 to 2003.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Lallerstedt" }, { "name": "Birte Christoffersen Danish-Swedish diver dead at age 101", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/birte-christoffersen", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 101, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Denmark", "Sweden" ], "description": "Birte Christoffersen, the Danish-Swedish diver who won an Olympic bronze medal, died on February 23, 2026, at the age of 101. Born in Copenhagen in 1924, she competed for Denmark in the 3 m springboard and 10 m platform at the 1948 Summer Olympics, winning bronze in the platform, and later represented Sweden at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics. She also won European championship bronze medals in both events in 1950, after moving to Sweden in 1953, and added silver medals in both in 1954. Christoffersen, later known as Hanson and then Ekberg, turned 100 in March 2024.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birte_Christoffersen" }, { "name": "Birgitta Andersson Swedish actress dead at age 92", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/birgitta-andersson", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 92, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Birgitta Andersson, the Swedish actress and comedian, died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 92. Born Ulla Birgitta Helena Andersson in Mariestad on April 20, 1933, she worked in film, television and stage performances from 1954 to 2010. She made her breakthrough in variety shows with Povel Ramel and Karl Gerhard and later became part of the group around Hasse & Tage, appearing in productions including Gula Hund, Docking the Boat, Spader, Madame!, The Apple War, Ägget är löst, The Adventures of Picasso and Häxan Surtant. In 1967, she portrayed Teskedsgumman in the Swedish advent calendar of the same name.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Birgitta_Andersson.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgitta_Andersson" }, { "name": "Henric Holmberg Swedish actor dead at age 80", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/henric-holmberg", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 80, "death_date": "2026-02-12", "reported_date": "2026-02-12", "published_at": "2026-02-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Henric Holmberg, a Swedish actor, died on February 12, 2026. Born Sven Martin Henric Holmberg in Växjö on January 4, 1946, he had his breakthrough in \"Sven Klang's Combo\" in 1976. He began acting in leftist theater groups and later took part in the 1977 Tent Project, a musical theater performance on the history of the Swedish working-class movement, playing the Communist leader Zeth Höglund. Holmberg also portrayed historical figures including Rutger Macklean in the 1993 Sveriges Television drama \"Macklean\" and Adolf Hitler in the play \"Albert Speer\" at Gothenburg City Theatre in 2001, later televised.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henric_Holmberg" }, { "name": "Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan Turkish writer dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/mehmed-emin-bozarslan", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-02-10", "reported_date": "2026-02-10", "published_at": "2026-02-10T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden", "Turkey" ], "description": "Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan, a Turkish-Swedish Kurdish writer and translator, died on February 10, 2026. Born in Diyarbakır in south-eastern Turkey on 15 September 1934, he moved to Sweden as a political asylum seeker in 1978 and lived in Uppsala until his death. Among his early works was Alfabê, published in Turkey in 1968 as the first ABC-book for Kurdish learning. The books were impounded immediately by a Turkish court, and Bozarslan was later arrested and jailed under separatism charges. He was released, then jailed again during the military regime from spring 1971 to summer 1974.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed_Em%C3%AEn_Bozarslan" }, { "name": "Matz Skoog Swedish ballet dancer and artistic director dead at age 68", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/matz-skoog", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 68, "death_date": "2026-02-10", "reported_date": "2026-02-10", "published_at": "2026-02-10T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "England", "New Zealand", "Sweden" ], "description": "Matz Skoog, the Swedish ballet dancer and artistic director, died on February 10, 2026. Born in Stockholm on April 10, 1957, he trained with the Royal Swedish Ballet School. 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