Thorbjörn Fälldin (1926)
Nils Olof Thorbjörn Fälldin was a Swedish politician and farmer who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1976 to 1978 and again from 1979 to 1982. From 1971 to 1985, he was leader of the Centre…
Similar Posts
Gyanendra of Nepal (1947)
Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev is a Nepalese businessman who reigned as the last king of Nepal. He reigned from 1950 to 1951 and again from 2001 to 2008, when the Kingdom of Nepal was abolished and…
Nicholas Ray (1911)
Nicholas Ray was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as “Hollywood’s last romantic” and “one of postwar American cinema’s supremely gifted and…
Valentin Yanin (1929)
Valentin Lavrentievich Yanin was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles. He had also edited a number of important journals and primary sources, including works on medieval…
Bill Emmott (1956)
William John Emmott is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of The Economist newspaper from 1993 to 2006. Emmott has written fourteen books and worked on…
David Bedford (1949)
David Colin Bedford OBE is an English former long-distance runner, whose athletic career spanned the early 1970s. Post-retirement, he served as race director of the London Marathon until 2012, and…
Werner Arber (1929)
Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the…