Birthdate: January 21, 1829

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Stadsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden

Died: December 8, 1907

Oscar II ruled as the king of both Sweden and Norway., His reign witnessed the dissolution of the union between the two countries in 1905. A lover of literature and the arts, he had penned several books and had also built the world’s first open-air museum, near Oslo.