Gun Hägglund
Gun Hägglund was born on March 2, 1932. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Gun Hägglund
Karin Gunvor Sjöblom Hägglund (2 March 1932 – 19 August 2011), better known as Gun Hägglund, was a Swedish television host and translator. Hägglund was the first female television news anchor in Sweden, hosting the Swedish national evening news show Aktuellt in 1958. She is sometimes credited as the first female television news reader in the world, but that claim is inaccurate as British ITN Midday News included female bulletin presenter Barbara Mandell in 1955 and BBC Regional news bulletin included Armine Sandford in 1957. Gun Hägglund started her career at Swedish Radio in 1955 where she…