Stieg Larsson

Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson was a Swedish writer, journalist, and activist. He is best known for writing the Millennium trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously, starting in 2005, after he died of a sudden heart attack. The trilogy was adapted as three motion pictures in Sweden, and one in the U.S.. The publisher commissioned David Lagercrantz to expand the trilogy into a longer series, which has six novels as of September 2019. For much of his life, Larsson lived and worked in Stockholm. His journalistic work covered socialist politics and he acted as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism.

15 August 1954

Born on the same birth day (15 August): Aleks Çaçi • Alfonso IX of León • Bartol Kašić • Emily Kinney • Gilles Ménage • Jim Dale • John Chisum • Malcolm Glazer • Marion Bauer • Melinda French Gates • Mike Connors • Mike Seeger • Napoleon • Rose Maddox • Rıdvan Dilmen • Scott Altman • Stylianos Gonatas • Thomas De Quincey • Valentin Varlamov

Born in the same month (August 1954): Alan Reid (politician) • Anatoliy Kinakh • David Paymer • Derek Warwick • François Valéry • Howard Clark (golfer) • Hugh Pelham • Jonathan Pollard • Leung Chun-ying • Oscar Larrauri • Pat Metheny • Steve Smith (drummer)