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Born October 27, 1844 • Gothenburg • Sweden
Died February 20, 1916 (aged 71) • Stockholm • Sweden
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1908)
Alva Myrdal.
Alva Reimer Myrdal
Swedish diplomat
Branting, detail from an oil painting by Richard Bergh; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Karl Hjalmar Branting
Swedish statesman
Dag Hammarskjold, wearing a blue suit and tie, sits at a desk with a world map on the wall behind him.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish statesman and secretary-general of the United Nations
Margaret I
Margaret I
queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
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Erik VII
king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
John of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; detail from a plaster cast of his tombstone, original sculpture by Claus Berg, c. 1513; in the Cathedral of St. Canute, Odense, Den.
John
king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
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Christopher III
king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
Estournelles de Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'
Paul-H.-B. d’Estournelles de Constant
French diplomat
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
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Olaf III Haraldsson
king of Norway
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Axel, Count Oxenstierna
chancellor of Sweden
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Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt
Swedish statesman
Bernadotte, Folke, Greve
Greve Folke Bernadotte
Swedish diplomat
Hans Axel von Fersen, portrait by an unknown artist; in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Hans Axel von Fersen
Swedish politician
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Christian Lundeberg
Swedish politician
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Bertil Ohlin
Swedish economist
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
president of United States
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
American political scientist and diplomat
Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú
Guatemalan activist
Andrey Sakharov
Andrey Sakharov
Soviet physicist and dissident