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.
• 5 February - Humbert Lundén, sailor.
• 18 September – Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary General.
• 24 November – Axel Wenner-Gren, businessman
• 25 November - Claës König, nobleman, military officer and horse rider.
• – Ruth Gustafson