Historical figures in Stockholm
The atlas holds 65 people and 89 moments here, from 1649 to 2015. The most recorded lives are Ingmar Bergman, Selma Lagerlöf and René Descartes. Among them Writers, Scientists and Performers, across the Space Age and the Cold War.
Notable people
Ada Yonath
in 2009
2 moments here
Israeli crystallographer whose work on ribosome structure and function earned her a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.…
Alan MacDiarmid
in 2000
1 moment here
New Zealand-American chemist and 2000 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, known for co-developing conductive polymers.…
Albert Camus
in 1957
2 moments here
French writer, philosopher, journalist, and political activist, born in French Algeria. Camus studied and worked in Algiers, moved between Algeria…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
in 1974
1 moment here
Soviet and Russian novelist, essayist, historian, dissident, and Nobel laureate whose writings on Soviet political repression and the Gulag made him…
Alexander Prokhorov
in 1964
1 moment here
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet and Russian physicist whose work in quantum electronics helped lead to the maser and…
Alfred Nobel
from 1833 to 1863
3 moments here
Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–1896) developed dynamite and other explosives, built businesses…
Allan MacLeod Cormack
in 1979
1 moment here
South African-born American physicist and academic whose mathematical work helped establish computed tomography.…
Anatole France
in 1921
1 moment here
French poet, journalist, novelist, public intellectual, Académie française member, and 1921 Nobel laureate in Literature.…
Andy Warhol
in 1968
1 moment here
American artist and filmmaker whose work helped define Pop art. Born in Pittsburgh, Warhol studied there before moving to New York in 1949.…
Carl Linnaeus
in 1738
1 moment here
Swedish botanist, physician, and naturalist who formalized binomial nomenclature and devised an influential system for classifying organisms.…
Chulalongkorn
in 1897
1 moment here
Chulalongkorn (Rama V) was King of Siam from 1868 until 1910. His reign combined state centralization, legal and social reform, and diplomacy…
Claude Simon
in 1985
1 moment here
French novelist, painter, photographer, viticulturist, Resistance participant, and 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.…
Derek Walcott
in 1992
2 moments here
Saint Lucian poet, playwright, painter, and teacher who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1958
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Édith Piaf
in 1958
1 moment here
French singer and lyricist Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, rose from street performance in Paris to international prominence in chanson…
Enrico Fermi
in 1938
1 moment here
Italian and naturalized-American physicist whose documented movements trace a path from Rome and Pisa through European study in Göttingen and Leiden,…
Freddie Mercury
in 1986
1 moment here
Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara) was a British singer, songwriter, pianist, and lead vocalist of Queen.…
F. W. de Klerk
in 2001
1 moment here
South African lawyer and National Party politician who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994…
Gabriela Mistral
in 1945
1 moment here
Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…
Gabriel García Márquez
in 1982
1 moment here
Colombian novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose life moved between Colombia, Europe, Cuba, the United States, Mexico, and…
Garrincha
in 1958
1 moment here
Manuel Francisco dos Santos, known as Garrincha, was a Brazilian right winger. He spent most of his club career with Botafogo and won the FIFA World…
Haile Selassie
in 1924
1 moment here
Haile Selassie I (born Tafari Makonnen) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 until his deposition in 1974.…
Henrik Ibsen
in 1869
1 moment here
Norwegian playwright and poet whose career took him from Telemark and coastal Norway to theatre work in Bergen and Christiania, then to long…
Ingmar Bergman
from 1937 to 1981
6 moments here
Swedish filmmaker, screenwriter, theatre director, theatre manager and author. Bergman’s career moved between Stockholm’s student and professional…
Moments
- 1649 Arrives in Stockholm René Descartes
- 1649 Lives in Chanut's Västerlånggatan house René Descartes
- 1650 Tutors Queen Christina at Tre Kronor René Descartes
- 1650 Dies at Chanut's Stockholm residence René Descartes
- 1738 Physician in Stockholm Carl Linnaeus
- 1833 Birth at Norrlandsgatan Alfred Nobel
- 1841 Pupil at Jacobs Apologistic School Alfred Nobel
- 1861 Scandinavian journey to Stockholm Jules Verne
- 1863 Move to Stockholm for nitroglycerin experiments Alfred Nobel
- 1869 Visit and honour in Stockholm Henrik Ibsen
- 1873 Stay with relatives in Stockholm Selma Lagerlöf
- 1882 Teacher training in Stockholm Selma Lagerlöf
- 1897 Reception in Stockholm Chulalongkorn
- 1905 Travels to Stockholm for Nobel obligations Marie Curie
- 1906 Fourth RSDLP Congress Mikhail Frunze
- 1906 Fourth Party Congress in Stockholm Vladimir Lenin
- 1910 Holidayed in Stockholm Vladimir Lenin
- 1910 Nobel anniversary visit to Stockholm Ronald Ross
- 1911 Suffrage address at the Royal Opera Selma Lagerlöf
- 1917 Suffrage lecture at Auditorium Selma Lagerlöf
- 1917 Arrival in Stockholm Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1919 Citizenship celebration speech Selma Lagerlöf
- 1920 Nobel Prize visit to Stockholm Max Planck
- 1921 Addresses the Swedish Academy Rabindranath Tagore
- 1921 Nobel Prize reception in Stockholm Anatole France
- 1922 Nobel lecture in Stockholm Lawrence Bragg
- 1924 Foreign tour: Stockholm Haile Selassie
- 1925 Nobel Banquet speech Willem Einthoven
- 1929 Nobel Prize ceremony Thomas Mann
- 1937 University studies and student theatre Ingmar Bergman
- 1938 Nobel Prize visit Enrico Fermi
- 1938 Nobel Prize ceremony Pearl S. Buck
- 1940 Student-theatre directing debut Ingmar Bergman
- 1940 Exile residence in Stockholm Willy Brandt
- 1945 Nobel Prize award ceremony Gabriela Mistral
- 1948 Nobel Prize ceremony T. S. Eliot
- 1950 Return to Stockholm's Intima Theatre Ingmar Bergman
- 1950 Nobel banquet speech William Faulkner
- 1951 Nobel lecture in Stockholm Max Theiler
- 1957 Lucia ceremony in Stockholm Albert Camus
- 1957 Nobel banquet speech Albert Camus
- 1957 Nobel Prize ceremony Tsung-Dao Lee
- 1957 Nobel Banquet speech Yang Chen-Ning
- 1958 Lecture in Stockholm Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1958 Stage illness in Stockholm Édith Piaf
- 1958 1958 World Cup final Garrincha
- 1958 World Cup final Pelé
- 1958 World Cup semi-final hat-trick Pelé
- 1959 State visit to Sweden Olav V
- 1960 Nobel-year visit to Stockholm Macfarlane Burnet