1961 in Sweden

Events from the year 1961 in Sweden

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 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).
 * 25 November – Claës König, nobleman, military officer and horse rider (born 1885).
 * – Ruth Gustafson