When Karl Oskar Gustafsson was born on 20 January 1896, in Flo, Skaraborg, Sweden, his father, Axel Edvin Gustafsson, was 20 and his mother, Ida Maria Karlsdatter Eriksson, was 18. He married Elin Linnea Josephina Johansson on 26 February 1922, in Frändefors, Älvsborg, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Vassända, Älvsborg, Sweden in 1900 and Älvsborg, Sweden in 1901. He died in 1961, in Tunhem, Älvsborg, Sweden, at the age of 65.
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World exposition held in Stockholm. First Swedish car built.
First Nobel Prize awarded.
World War I began, Sweden neutral.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Lars, Per, Erik, Mats, Anders, Bjorn, Lennart, Niklas, Nils, Ragner, Sig. German Hans, Ulrika.
Swedish: patronymic from the personal name Gustaf, a variant of Gustav (see Gustavsson ). Compare Gustafson .
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