1966 in Sweden

Events from the year 1966 in Sweden.

← 1965 1964 1963 1966 in Sweden → 1967 1968 1969
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	Other events of 1966 Timeline of Swedish history

Incumbents

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

Events

Popular culture

Music

• Grimascher och telegram, album by Cornelis Vreeswijk

Births

• 19 January – Yukiko Duke, journalist and translator
• 5 August – Håkan Algotsson, ice hockey goaltender.^[1]
• 8 September – Mats Arkhem, politician^[2]
• 12 October – Christian Due-Boje, ice hockey player.^[3]
• 12 November – Anette Norberg, curler^[4]

Deaths

Gösta Åsbrink.

• 19 April – Gösta Åsbrink, gymnast and modern pentathlete (born 1881).^[5]
• 3 October – Rolf Maximilian Sievert, medical physicist (born 1896)^[6]
• 11 November – Carl Jonsson, tug-of-war competitor (born 1885).^[7]