1961 in Spain

Incumbents

• Caudillo: Francisco Franco

Births

• June 18 – Manuel Pereira, fencer
• July 23 – Gonzalo Arconada Echarri, football manager
• November 4 – Carlos García Cantarero, football manager
• December 24 – Silvia Fontana, swimmer

Deaths

• April 7 - Jesús Guridi, Spanish Basque composer
• April 19 - Manuel Quiroga, Spanish violinist
• August 1 - Domingo Pérez Cáceres, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint
• December 23 - Fanny Schoonheyt, Dutch Communist Lieutenant in the Spanish Civil War.
• Miguel Gómez Bao - Spanish-born Argentine actor