1961 in Sweden
Events from the year '''1961 in Sweden'''
Incumbents
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