Thorbjörn Fälldin

Prime Minister of Sweden

24 April 1926 Högsjö, Sweden

23 July 2016(2016-07-23) (90) Ås, Sweden

12 October 1979 – 8 October 1982

Swedish Prime Minister from 1976 to 1982 Nils Olof Thorbjörn Fälldin (24 April 1926 – 23 July 2016) was a Swedish politician. He was Prime Minister of Sweden in three non-consecutive cabinets from 1976 to 1982, and leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 1971 to 1985. On his first appointment in 1976, he was the first non-Social Democrat Prime Minister for 40 years and the first since the 1930s not to have worked as a professional politician since his teens.