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): Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain • Anne, Princess Royal • Bernard Fanning • Bobby Helms • Ethel Barrymore • Jack Russell (cricketer, born 1963) • Jennifer Lawrence • Johann Christoph Kellner • Khaleda Zia • Napoleon • Régine Deforges • Vijay Bharadwaj • Walter Crane

Born in the same month (August 1954): Andrés Pastrana Arango • Benno Möhlmann • Derek Warwick • Elvis Costello • George Church (geneticist) • Hugh Pelham • Pat Metheny • Ravi Shankar Prasad • Sam J. Jones • Steve Phillips (footballer, born 1954) • Valery Gazzaev