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): Ann Biderman • Bartol Kašić • Bertrand Berry • Dimitris Sioufas • E. Nesbit • George, Duke of Bavaria • Jan Campert • Keir Hardie • Konstantinos Stephanopoulos • Leslie Comrie • Maxine Waters • Oussama Assaidi • Paul Outerbridge • Thomas De Quincey • Tom Kelly (baseball)

Born in the same month (August 1954): Al Roker • Alexander Lukashenko • Andrés Pastrana Arango • Benno Möhlmann • Bryan Bassett • Charles Busch • Elvis Costello • François Hollande • Halimah Yacob • Hugh Pelham • John Dorahy • John Lloyd (tennis) • Leung Chun-ying • Mark Hughes (rugby league, born 1954) • Michael Arthur (physician) • Nick Holtam • Pete Thomas (drummer) • Ray Jennings • Sammy McIlroy • Tawn Mastrey • Umberto Guidoni • Vance Heafner