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Events in the year 2021 in Sweden.

Incumbents[]

Events[]

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

  • 5 January – A 55-year-old female suspect is arrested after the deadly stabbing of a man in the Ljura district of Norrköping that occurred a night prior.[1][2][3]
  • 31 January – Sweden loses to Denmark in the final of the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship, winning silver in the competition.[4][5]
  • 3 March – Vetlanda stabbing attack: An Afghan man in his twenties injured 7 people[6] with an axe in Vetlanda. He was shot and wounded by police before being arrested.[7][8]
  • 22–28 March – 2021 World Figure Skating Championships was held in Stockholm.[9]
  • 1 April - Kalix train station is opened.[10]
  • 16 May - Bromma Airport and Light Rail station is opened.[11]
  • 21 June – Swedish government crisis.[12]
  • 29 June – Sweden national football team are knocked out of the UEFA Euro 2020 competition at the Round of 16 by Ukraine.[13]
  • 30 June - A police officer is shot dead in Biskopsgården, Gothenburg.[14]
  • 8 July - A single-engine DHC-2 Beaver carrying 8 skydivers plus 1 pilot crashed shortly after takeoff from Örebro Airport. All 9 people died.[15]
  • 21 July – Two inmates take prison guards hostage at near Eskilstuna with demands for kebab pizza and a helicopter. The inmates were taken into custody later the same day.[16]
  • 22 August - Stefan Löfven announces that he will resign as Prime Minister in November 2021.[17]
  • 28 September - An explosion occures in Annedal in Gothenburg.[18]
  • 3 October - Lars Vilks dies together with two guards in a car crash on European route E4 in Markaryd.[19]
  • 14 October - The Swedish Police Authority presents a new list of Vulnerable areas, Klockaretorpet in Norrköping and in Gothenburg are removed while Valsta, Fisksätra, Visättra and Grantorp in Stockholm are added.[20]
  • 18 October - A 50-year-old male suspect is arrested after attempting to murder three people in Lycksele.[21]
  • 21 October - Einár is shot dead in Hammarby Sjöstad.[22]
  • 1 November - Three people were sent to hospital and 18 others were adviced to seek medical care after a fire broke out at Northvolt battery factory in Västerås.[23]
  • 2 November - A suicide incident occurs at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress leaving two people deceased.[24]
  • 30 November: Magdalena Andersson replaces Stefan Löfven as Prime Minister of Sweden, making her the first woman ever to hold that position.[25]
  • 6 December - A photo published by Nyheter Idag of the Ida Karkiainen doing a Nazi salute in 2004 becomes a political scandal.[26][27]
  • 12 December - Light Rail station is opened.[28]
  • 13 December - Two vessels collide of the coast of Ystad.[29]
  • 17 December - The Gävle goat is burned down after a surviving record of 4 years.[30]
  • 25 December - Four people die in a villa fire in Sandviken, Gävleborg.[31][32]
  • 25 December - Two people were sent to hospital after an explosion at Northvolt battery factory in Västerås.[33]

Scheduled events[]

Anniversaries[]

  • 400 years since the establishment of Gothenburg as a city, getting town privileges in 1621.[35] The planned Gothenburg quadricentennial jubilee has been postponed till 2023, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Deaths[]

January[]

Mona Malm
Gunnel Lindblom
  • 10 January – Thorleif Torstensson, singer (b. 1949).[36]
  • 11 January – Tord Peterson, actor (b. 1926).[37]
  • 12 January – Mona Malm, actress (b. 1935).[38]
  • 16 January – Lars Westman, writer (b. 1934).[39]
  • 18 January – Thorsten Johansson, Olympic sprinter (b. 1950).[40]
  • 21 January
  • 24 January
    • Gunnel Lindblom, actress (b. 1931).[43]
    • Sigvard Marjasin, civil servant (b. 1929).[44]
  • 26 January – Lars Norén, playwright, novelist and poet (b. 1944).[45]
  • 27 January – Gert Blomé, ice hockey player (b. 1934).[46]
  • 28 January – Annette Kullenberg, journalist and author (b. 1939).[47]

February[]

Margreth Weivers
  • 3 February – Margreth Weivers, actress (b. 1926).[48]
  • 4 February – Frank Baude, politician, leader of the Communist Party (b. 1936).[49]
  • 13 February – Olle Nygren, speedway rider (b. 1929).[50]
  • 19 February – Ebba Andersson, footballer (Öxabäcks, national team) (b. 1935).[51]

March[]

Birgitta Rasmusson
  • 5 March
    • Stig Malm, trade unionist, chairman of LO (1983–1993) (b. 1942).[52]
    • Birgitta Rasmusson, television personality and cookbook author (b. 1939).[53]
  • 6 March – Bengt Åberg, motocross racer (b. 1944).[54]
  • 7 March – Lars-Göran Petrov, heavy metal singer (Entombed, Entombed A.D., Firespawn) (b. 1972).[55]
  • 15 March –  [sv], weightlifter and reality television contestant (Expediton Robinson) (b. 1946).[56]
  • 16 March – , stage actress (Nine) (b. 1942).[57]
  • 26 March – Lennart Larsson, cross country skier, Olympic bronze medalist (1956) (b. 1930).[58]
  • 28 March
    •  [sv], singer and musician (b. 1981).[59]
    •  [sv], musician, music writer and playwright (b.1927).[60]

April[]

Ingela Lind
  • 1 April – Nemam Ghafouri, physician, activist and humanitarian (b. 1968).[61]
  • 4 April – Ingela Lind, art critic and author (b. 1943).[62]
  • 6 April – Maj Britt Theorin, politician, MP (1971–1995) and MEP (1995–2004) (b. 1932).[63]
  • 10 April
  • 11 April – , writer and playwright (b. 1928).[66]
  • 14 April
    •  [sv], doctor and left-wing political activist (b. 1937).[67]
    • Inga Sarri, actress (b. 1934). [68]
  • 20 April – Sven-Olof Olson, Air Force officer (b. 1926).[69]
  • 24 April – Riitta Vainionpää, textile artist (b. 1952).[70]

May[]

  • 5 May – Bertil Johansson, footballer (IFK Göteborg, national team) (b. 1935).[71]
  • 10 May
    • Lars-Gunnar Bodin, electronic musician (b. 1935).[72]
    • Svante Thuresson, jazz musician ("Nygammal vals") (b. 1937).[73]

June[]

Sven Erlander
  • 9 June – , musician, composer and singer (b. 1938).[74]
  • 11 June – Sara Wedlund, Olympic long-distance runner (1996) (b. 1975).[75]
  • 13 June – Sven Erlander, mathematician (b. 1934).[76]
  • 16 June
    • , politician (b. 1932).[77]
    •  [sv], music journalist (b. 1970). [78]
  • 19 June – Ove Emanuelsson, Olympic sprint canoer (1960, 1964, 1968) (b. 1941).[79]
  • 23 June – Med Reventberg, actress (Ronia, the Robber's Daughter) (b. 1948).[80]
  • 27 June – Peps Persson, musician (b. 1946).[81]
  • 30 June – Inge Danielsson, footballer (Helsingborg, Ajax, national team) (b. 1941).[82]

July[]

  • 18 July – Tommy Engstrand, sports journalist and television host (b. 1939).[83]
  • 20 July
    • Curt-Eric Holmquist, conductor (Lotta på Liseberg), Eurovision Song Contest winner (1984) (b. 1948).[84]
    •  [sv], journalist and news editor (b. 1946).[85]
  • 23 July – , comic writer (The Phantom) (b. 1955).[86]
  • 31 July – Kenneth Johansson, politician and MP (1998–2012) (b. 1956).[87]

August[]

October[]

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