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
John Steinbeck
in 1962
1 moment here
American novelist, journalist, and war correspondent whose life and work ranged from California’s Salinas Valley and Monterey Peninsula to wartime…
José Mujica
in 2011
1 moment here
Uruguayan guerrilla fighter, farmer and politician who was president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015.…
Jules Verne
in 1861
1 moment here
French novelist, playwright, and poet whose documented life included residences and work in Nantes, Paris, Amiens, Auteuil, and Le Crotoy, together…
Kenzaburō Ōe
in 1994
1 moment here
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, Nobel laureate, and prominent pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigner.…
Lars Onsager
in 1968
1 moment here
Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist whose career took him from Norway and Switzerland to major American universities.…
Lawrence Bragg
in 1922
1 moment here
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg, for…
Macfarlane Burnet
in 1960
1 moment here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Marie Curie
in 1905
1 moment here
Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…
Mario Vargas Llosa
in 2010
2 moments here
Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and political figure. Vargas Llosa lived and worked across Peru, Bolivia, Spain, France, the United Kingdom,…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1962
1 moment here
New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Max Planck
in 1920
1 moment here
German theoretical physicist and originator of quantum theory. Planck’s documented life moved from Kiel to Munich, Berlin, Kiel again, and Berlin,…
Max Theiler
in 1951
1 moment here
South African-American virologist and physician whose work at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Yale contributed to the development of the 17D…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1967
1 moment here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Mikhail Frunze
in 1906
1 moment here
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Red Army commander, Soviet military theorist, and senior state official.…
Nadine Gordimer
from 1991 to 2001
2 moments here
South African novelist, short-story writer, and anti-apartheid activist whose work examined apartheid, race, power, and moral responsibility.…
Octavio Paz
in 1990
1 moment here
Mexican poet, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose international postings and teaching appointments connected Mexico City, the United States, Europe,…
Olav V
from 1959 to 1975
2 moments here
Olav V of Norway (born Prince Alexander of Denmark) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991.…
Pablo Neruda
in 1971
1 moment here
Chilean poet, diplomat, senator, Communist political figure, and 1971 Nobel laureate. Born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, he lived and…
Pearl S. Buck
in 1938
1 moment here
American writer, humanitarian, and activist whose life was divided between the United States and China before she became an internationally prominent…
Pelé
in 1958
2 moments here
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé, was a Brazilian footballer who starred for Santos, Brazil and the New York Cosmos.…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1921
1 moment here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
René Descartes
from 1649 to 1650
4 moments here
French philosopher, mathematician, and natural philosopher whose methodic doubt, mind-body distinction, analytic techniques, and mechanical account…
Robin Warren
in 2005
1 moment here
Australian pathologist whose observations of curved bacteria in gastric biopsies and subsequent collaboration with Barry Marshall transformed…
Ronald Ross
in 1910
1 moment here
British physician, malariologist, mathematician, writer, and 1902 Nobel laureate. Ross established the mosquito’s role in malaria transmission…
Moments
- 1960 Nobel Prize ceremony Saint-John Perse
- 1962 Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm John Steinbeck
- 1962 Nobel Prize ceremony Maurice Wilkins
- 1963 Leadership of the Royal Dramatic Theatre Ingmar Bergman
- 1964 Arrival for the Nobel Prize week Alexander Prokhorov
- 1967 Nobel banquet speech Miguel Ángel Asturias
- 1968 Moderna Museet appearance Andy Warhol
- 1968 Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm Lars Onsager
- 1968 Nobel Prize events in Stockholm Yasunari Kawabata
- 1971 Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm Pablo Neruda
- 1971 Visit to Stockholm Willy Brandt
- 1974 Nobel banquet speech Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 1975 State visit to Sweden Olav V
- 1976 Arrest during rehearsal Ingmar Bergman
- 1979 Nobel Prize ceremony Allan MacLeod Cormack
- 1981 Fanny and Alexander production begins Ingmar Bergman
- 1982 Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm Gabriel García Márquez
- 1983 Nobel Prize award ceremony Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1984 Right Livelihood Award acceptance Wangarĩ Maathai
- 1985 Nobel lecture and prize reception Claude Simon
- 1986 Magic Tour opening Freddie Mercury
- 1987 Anders Retzius Lecture Sydney Brenner
- 1990 Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy Octavio Paz
- 1991 Nobel Prize award ceremony Nadine Gordimer
- 1992 Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy Derek Walcott
- 1992 Nobel Prize ceremony Derek Walcott
- 1994 Nobel Prize award ceremony Kenzaburō Ōe
- 2000 Nobel Prize award ceremony Alan MacDiarmid
- 2001 Visit to Stockholm F. W. de Klerk
- 2001 Nobel Centennial Symposium lecture Nadine Gordimer
- 2001 Nobel Lecture at the Swedish Academy V. S. Naipaul
- 2005 Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm Robin Warren
- 2007 Return to Stockholm for Nobel anniversary Tsung-Dao Lee
- 2009 Nobel Lecture Ada Yonath
- 2009 Received Nobel Prize in Chemistry Ada Yonath
- 2010 Nobel Lecture Mario Vargas Llosa
- 2010 Nobel Prize award ceremony Mario Vargas Llosa
- 2011 Meetings in Stockholm José Mujica
- 2015 Lecture at Stockholm Waterfront Stephen Hawking