1960 in Sweden

Events from the year 1960 in Sweden

Incumbents

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

Events

• 13 December – The motorway Vätterleden in Sweden is inaugurated.

Births

• 27 February – Pär Arvidsson, swimmer.
• 12 April – Tomas Jonsson, ice hockey player.
• 3 July – HÃ¥kan Loob, ice hockey player.
• 26 August – Jan Brink, horse rider.
• 29 August – Helena Gellerman, politician.

Deaths

• 4 February – Carl Björkman, sport shooter (born 1869).
• 8 May – Hugo Alfvén, Swedish violinist, conductor and composer (born 1872)
• 21 May – Rudolf Degermark, gymnast (born 1886).
• 29 June – Karl Lindahl, gymnast (born 1890).
• 9 September – Jussi Björling, Swedish operatic tenor (born 1911)

• Signe Bergman, feminist (born 1869).
• Ebba von Eckermann, feminist (born 1866).

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