Events from the year 1839 in Sweden

• Monarch – Charles XIV John

• The revised edition of the radical novel Det går an by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, first published in 1822, is published^[1]
• Liljeholmens Stearinfabriks AB
• Stockholms Lyceum

• 2 March - Victoria Bundsen, opera alto (died 1909)
• 18 April - Lotten Edholm, composer and a pioneer within the Swedish Red Cross (died 1930)
• 21 May - Nils Christoffer Dunér, astronomer (died 1914)
• 24 August - Sofie Johannesdotter, serial killer (died 1876)
• 2 November - Augusta Braunerhjelm, playwright (died 1929)
• 30 December - Victor Hartman, actor (died 1898)
• Charlotte Yhlen, doctor (died 1919)
• Hulda Mellgren, industrialist (died 1918)

• 7 February - Karl August Nicander, poet (born 1799)
• 30 June - Johan Olof Wallin, minister, orator, poet and later Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala (born 1779)
• Jacquette Löwenhielm, royal mistress (born 1797)
• Pär Aron Borg, pioneer in the education for the blind and deaf (born 1776)
• Pehr Henrik Ling, called the "father of Swedish athletics"^[1]