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Alva Myrdal
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Alva Myrdal

1902 – 1986 · aged 84

Swedish sociologist and politician (1902-1986)

Born
31 Jan 1902 · Uppsala Cathedral Assembly
Died
1 Feb 1986 · Danderyd
Part ofSweden800 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 97 years
  1. 31 Jan 1902BornBorn in Uppsala Cathedral Assembly
  2. 1955 – 1959RoleAmbassador of Sweden to Burma
  3. 1955 – 1961RoleAmbassador of Sweden to India
  4. 1960 – 1961RoleAmbassador of Sweden to Nepal
  5. 1960 – 1961RoleAmbassador of Sweden to Sri Lanka
  6. 1962 – 1970RoleMember of the First Chamber
  7. 1969 – 1973RoleMinister for Church Affairs
  8. 1970AwardPeace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
  9. 1973AwardWateler Peace Prize
  10. 1975AwardThe KTH Great Prize
  11. 1976AwardMonismanien Prize
  12. 1980AwardAlbert Einstein Peace Prize
  13. 1981AwardJawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
  14. 1982AwardNobel Peace Prize
  15. 1982AwardPeople's Peace Prize
  16. 1 Feb 1986DiedDied in Danderyd

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1902 – 1986).

  1. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  2. 1914 – 1918World War I
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1939 – 1945World War II
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  25. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  27. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  28. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  30. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  31. 1956Suez Crisis
  32. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  34. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  36. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  38. 1968Prague Spring
  39. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  40. 19721972 Summer Olympics

Biography

Alva Myrdal ( MUR-dahl, MEER-, Swedish: [ˈǎlːva ˈmy̌ːɖɑːl]; née Reimer; 31 January 1902 – 1 February 1986) was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician. She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She, along with Alfonso García Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924; he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974, making them the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first to win independent of each other (versus a shared Nobel Prize by scientist spouses).

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