Events from the year 1960 in Sweden

Incumbents Monarch – Gustaf VI Adolf Prime Minister – Tage Erlander

Events 13 December – The motorway Vätterleden in Sweden is inaugurated.

Births

27 February – Pär Arvidsson, swimmer. 12 April – Tomas Jonsson, ice hockey player. 3 July – Håkan Loob, ice hockey player. 26 August – Jan Brink, horse rider. 29 August – Helena Gellerman, politician.

Deaths 4 February – Carl Björkman, sport shooter (born 1869). 8 May – Hugo Alfvén, Swedish violinist, conductor and composer (born 1872) 21 May – Rudolf Degermark, gymnast (born 1886). 29 June – Karl Lindahl, gymnast (born 1890). 9 September – Jussi Björling, Swedish operatic tenor (born 1911)

Signe Bergman, feminist (born 1869). Ebba von Eckermann, feminist (born 1866).

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