Home / Birthday profiles / Elsa Brändström
Portrait of Elsa Brändström

Birthday profile

Elsa Brändström

Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse and philanthropist (died 1948)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
March 26, 1888
Died
March 4, 1948
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1888

About Elsa Brändström

Elsa Brändström was a Swedish nurse and philanthropist. She was known as the "Angel of Siberia". As Brändström visited the first camp and witnessed the inhumane situation, she decided to dedicate her life to these soldiers. Back in Saint Petersburg, she founded a Swedish Aid organisation but her work was severely hindered by the 1917 Russian Revolution and the Bolshevik coup. In 1906, Brändström, now a major general, became the Swedish envoy at the court of Tsar Nicholas II and returned to Saint Petersburg.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

Elsa Brändström timeline

  1. In 1906, Brändström, now a major general, became the Swedish envoy at the court of Tsar Nicholas II and returned to Saint Petersburg.
  2. Back in Saint Petersburg, she founded a Swedish Aid organisation but her work was severely hindered by the 1917 Russian Revolution and the Bolshevik coup.

The world when Elsa Brändström was born

Elsa Brändström was born in 1888. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineGreat Blizzard of 1888 paralyzes US East Coast
  • Technology milestoneKodak box camera — "You press the button, we do the rest"
  • Defining fadKodak camera craze
  • World population~1.48B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderGrover Cleveland
  • U.S. population57.6M

1888 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Elsa Brändström's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18882026
Population57.6M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, Library of Congress, VIAF, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.