Events from the year 1954 in Sweden
Incumbents
- Monarch – Gustaf VI Adolf
- Prime Minister – Tage Erlander
Events
- June – The Catalina affair
- Dissolution of the Kvinnliga medborgarskolan vid Fogelstad.
Popular culture
Sport
- 26 February to 7 March – The 1954 World Ice Hockey Championships were held in Stockholm
Literature
- Mio, My Son, children's book by Astrid Lindgren
Film
- 26 December – Gabrielle, directed by Hasse Ekman, released
Births
- 15 April – Göran Högosta, ice hockey player
- 28 April – Peter Schantz, medical scientist
- 19 May – Lena Einhorn, director, writer and physician
- 23 July – Philip Zandén, actor
- 8 September – Johan Harmenberg, fencer.
- 16 December – Eva Gustafsson, middle-distance runner
Deaths
- 19 February – Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, politician (born 1883)
- 2 June – Lydia Wahlström, historian and women's rights activist (born 1869)
- 29 June – Thorsten Svensson, football player (born 1901)
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