2014 in Sweden

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Events from the year 2014 in Sweden.

Incumbents

8–9 March – Knife attacks in the Möllevången neighbourhood of Malmö, in which neo-Nazis connected to the Party of the Swedes injure four people who had taken part in a demonstration celebrating International Women's Day that had just ended.^[1]^[2] Initial media reports of "a clash between leftwing and rightwing extremists" were widely condemned as misleading.^[3]^[4]
16 March – Thousands demonstrate against fascism in Malmö, in response to the International Women's Day knife attacks the previous weekend.^[5]^[6]

2 December –
3 December – Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven calls a snap general election.
9 December – The Pirate Bay website goes offline after Swedish police seize its servers.

6 January – Lena Smedsaas, journalist (b. 1951).^[7]
11 February – Alice Babs, singer and actress (b. 1924).^[8]
6 March – Barbro Kollberg, film actress (b. 1917).
7 July – Bertil Haase, modern pentathlete (b. 1923).^[9]
25 August – Lars Mortimer, comic artist (b. 1946).^[10]
29 August
- Brasse Brännström, actor and screenwriter (b. 1945).
- Björn Waldegård, rally driver (b. 1943).
12 September – Bengt Saltin, professor of human physiology (b. 1935).^[11]
29 October – Klas Ingesson, footballer (b. 1968).
21 December – Åke Johansson, footballer (b. 1928).

^ "'We can't rule out a Swedish Breivik': MP". The Local. 10 March 2014.
^ "Polisen: Nazister bakom knivattack" (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. 9 March 2014.
^ "Lögnerna om naziattacken". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 15 March 2014.
^ Samuel Merill; Johan Pries (2019). "Translocalising and Relocalising Antifascist Struggles: From #KämpaShowan to #KämpaMalmö". Antipode. 51 (1): 248–270. doi:10.1111/anti.12451.
^ "Tusentals i demonstration i Malmö" (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. 16 March 2014.
^ "Massiv demonstration i Malmö". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 16 March 2014.
^ "TV-profilen Lena Smedsaas är död". aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
^ Keepnews, Peter (14 February 2014). "Alice Babs, Who Sang for Ellington, Dies at 90". The New York Times.
^ "Bertil Haase". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
^ "Serieskaparen Lars Mortimer död". Västerbottens-Kuriren (in Swedish). 27 August 2014. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
^ "STOCKHOLM (AP) BENGT SALTIN, A SWEDISH PROFESSOR OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY". ad-hoc-news.de. 15 September 2014. Archived from the original on 16 September 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.

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