1961 in Sweden

Events from the year 1961 in Sweden

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.
• 18 September – UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld is killed in a plane crash in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia.

Births

• 25 April – Agneta Andersson, canoer, three times Olympic champion.

Deaths

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

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