Events from the year 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 (born 1908). 5 February – Humbert Lundén, sailor (born 1882). 18 September – Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary General (born 1905). 24 November – Axel Wenner-Gren, businessman (born 1881) 25 November – Claës König, nobleman, military officer and horse rider (born 1885). – Ruth Gustafson
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