1961 in Sweden

Events from the year 1961 in Sweden

← 1960 1959 1958 1961 in Sweden → 1962 1963 1964
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	Other events of 1961 Timeline of Swedish history

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustaf VI Adolf
• Prime Minister – Tage Erlander

Events

• 4 March - A 17-year-old student opened fire at a school dance in Kungälv, Västra Götaland County, killing one person and wounding six others.^[1]
• 18 September – UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld is killed in a plane crash in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia.^[2]

Births

• 25 April – Agneta Andersson, canoer, three times Olympic champion.^[3]

Deaths

Claës König, Olympic champion in 1920.

• 7 January – Erik Lundqvist, javelin thrower (born 1908).^[4]
• 5 February – Humbert Lundén, sailor (born 1882).^[5]
• 18 September – Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary General (born 1905).^[2]
• 24 November – Axel Wenner-Gren, businessman (born 1881)^[6]
• 25 November – Claës König, nobleman, military officer and horse rider (born 1885).^[7]
• – Ruth Gustafson