Swedish politician, statesman and Prime Minister (1969-76). Born Stockholm. 1986, late one night he and his wife were walking home from the cinema when he was shot in the back and died. No one was convicted of his murder.
2019: 'The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin by Jan Stocklassa was published. Larsson (who died 2004) was obsessed with the case; collecting material, theorising and looking for evidence.
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Olof Palme
Dedicated to the memory of Olof Palme, leader of the Swedish Social Democrati...
Politician. Born Janet Lee in Loghgelly, Fife. Entered parliament in 1929, becoming the youngest member of the house. She played a leading part in the founding of the Open University and the expans...
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
Treasurer of the Pulford Street Site Committee. This is possibly Sir John Humphrey Davidson (1876–1954), who was a military man until 1922 when he left the army and then became MP in Fareham, Ken...
Alder President associated with St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1702. A director of the slave trading Royal African Company and a governor of the colonial Irish Society.
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