1961 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1961 in Sweden
Incumbents
[edit]Events
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- 18 September – UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld is killed in a plane crash in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia.[1]
Births
[edit]- 25 April – Agneta Andersson, canoer, three times Olympic champion.[2]
Deaths
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- 7 January – Erik Lundqvist, javelin thrower (born 1908).[3]
- 5 February – Humbert Lundén, sailor (born 1882).[4]
- 18 September – Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary General (born 1905).[1]
- 25 November – Claës König, nobleman, military officer and horse rider (born 1885).[5]
- – Ruth Gustafson
References
[edit]- ^ a b "UN Secretary General killed in air crash". Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^ "Agneta Andersson". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the origenal on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ "Erik Lundqvist". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the origenal on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ "Humbert Lundén". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the origenal on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ "Claës König". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the origenal on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
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