← 1938 1937 1936 1939 in Sweden → 1940 1941 1942
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1939 Timeline of Swedish history

Events from the year 1939 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustaf V
• Prime Minister – Per Albin Hansson

Events

• 31 August – The Sandö Bridge collapsed while under construction, and 18 workers were killed in the event.^[1]

• The secret intelligence agency C-byrån established.^[2]
• The Åhlinska skolan is closed.

Literature

• Pelle Svanslös på äventyr by Gösta Knutsson, the first book in the Pelle Svanslös children's book series

Births

• 15 January – Per Ahlmark, writer and politician
• 25 January - Gabriel Romanus, politician
• 21 February - Börje Ahlstedt, actor
• 28 July – Gösta Ekman, actor, comedian, and director

Exact date missing

• Ivar Jacobson, computer scientist and software engineer

Deaths

• 12 January – Hugo Jahnke, gymnast (born 1886).^[3]
• 16 May – Anders Lindstedt mathematician, astronomer and actuarial scientist, known for the Poincaré–Lindstedt method (born 1854)
• 29 May – Åke Lundeberg, sport shooter (born 1888).^[4]
• 18 December – Bruno Liljefors, painter (born 1860)

Full date missing

• Olof Olsson, politician (born 1872).^[5]