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2021 in Sweden

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Events in the year 2021 in Sweden.

Incumbents[edit]

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime minister – Stefan Löfven, Magdalena Andersson

Events[edit]

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

• 31 January – Sweden loses to Denmark in the final of the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship, winning silver in the competition.^[1][2]
• 3 March – Vetlanda stabbing attack: A man in his twenties injures 7 people^[3] with an axeinVetlanda. He was shot and wounded by police before being arrested.^[4][5]
• 22–28 March – 2021 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Stockholm.^[6]
• 1 April – Kalix train station is opened.^[7]
• 21 June – Swedish government crisis.^[8]
• 29 June – Sweden national football team are knocked out of the UEFA Euro 2020 competition at the Round of 16 by Ukraine.^[9]
• 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.^[10]
• 22 August – Stefan Löfven announces that he will resign as Prime Minister in November 2021.^[11]
• 28 September – An explosion occurs in AnnedalinGothenburg.^[12]
• 3 October – Lars Vilks dies together with two guards in a car crash on European route E4inMarkaryd.^[13]
• 14 October – The Swedish Police Authority presents a new list of Vulnerable areas, KlockaretorpetinNorrköping and RannebergeninGothenburg are removed while Valsta, Fisksätra, Visättra and GrantorpinStockholm are added.^[14]
• 30 November: Magdalena Andersson replaces Stefan Löfven as Prime Minister of Sweden, making her the first woman ever to hold that position.^[15]
• 27 November to 5 December – 2021 Women's World Floorball ChampionshipsinUppsala.^[16]
• 6 December – A photo published by Nyheter Idag of the Minister for Public Administration Ida Karkiainen doing a Nazi salute in 2004 becomes a political scandal.^[17][18]
• 13 December – Two vessels collide of the coast of Ystad.^[19]

Anniversaries[edit]

• 400 years since the establishment of Gothenburg as a city, getting town privileges in 1621.^[20] The planned Gothenburg quadricentennial jubilee has been postponed till 2023, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Deaths[edit]

January[edit]

• 10 January – Thorleif Torstensson, singer (b. 1949).^[21]
• 11 January – Tord Peterson, actor (b. 1926).^[22]
• 12 January – Mona Malm, actress (b. 1935).^[23]
• 16 January – Lars Westman, writer (b. 1934).^[24]
• 18 January – Thorsten Johansson, Olympic sprinter (b. 1950).^[25]
• 21 January
  • Evert Båge, military officer (b. 1925).^[26]
  • Solveig Nordström, archeologist (b. 1923).^[27]
• 24 January
  • Gunnel Lindblom, actress (b. 1931).^[28]
  • Sigvard Marjasin, civil servant (b. 1929).^[29]
• 26 January – Lars Norén, playwright, novelist and poet (b. 1944).^[30]
• 27 January – Gert Blomé, ice hockey player (b. 1934).^[31]
• 28 January – Annette Kullenberg, journalist and author (b. 1939).^[32]

February[edit]

• 3 February – Margreth Weivers, actress (b. 1926).^[33]
• 4 February – Frank Baude, politician, leader of the Communist Party (b. 1936).^[34]
• 13 February – Olle Nygren, speedway rider (b. 1929).^[35]
• 19 February – Ebba Andersson, footballer (Öxabäcks, national team) (b. 1935).^[36]

March[edit]

• 5 March
  • Stig Malm, trade unionist, chairman of LO (1983–1993) (b. 1942).^[37]
  • Birgitta Rasmusson, television personality and cookbook author (b. 1939).^[38]
• 6 March – Bengt Åberg, motocross racer (b. 1944).^[39]
• 7 March – Lars-Göran Petrov, heavy metal singer (Entombed, Entombed A.D., Firespawn) (b. 1972).^[40]
• 15 March – Ehrling Wahlgren [sv], weightlifter and reality television contestant (Expedition Robinson) (b. 1946).^[41]
• 16 March – Berit Carlberg, stage actress (Nine) (b. 1942).^[42]
• 26 March – Lennart Larsson, cross country skier, Olympic bronze medalist (1956) (b. 1930).^[43]
• 28 March
  • Uffe Bergstrand [sv], singer and musician (b. 1981).^[44]
  • Ingmar Glanzelius [sv], musician, music writer and playwright (b.1927).^[45]

April[edit]

• 1 April – Nemam Ghafouri, physician, activist and humanitarian (b. 1968).^[46]
• 4 April – Ingela Lind, art critic and author (b. 1943).^[47]
• 6 April – Maj Britt Theorin, politician, MP (1971–1995) and MEP (1995–2004) (b. 1932).^[48]
• 10 April
  • Börje Holmberg, educator and writer (b. 1924).^[49]
  • Bosse Skoglund, drummer (Peps Persson) (b. 1936).^[50]
• 11 April – Berta Magnusson, writer and playwright (b. 1928).^[51]
• 14 April
  • Sköld Peter Matthis [sv], doctor and left-wing political activist (b. 1937).^[52]
  • Inga Sarri, actress (b. 1934).^[53]
• 20 April – Sven-Olof Olson, Air Force officer (b. 1926).^[54]
• 24 April – Riitta Vainionpää, textile artist (b. 1952).^[55]

May[edit]

• 5 May – Bertil Johansson, footballer (IFK Göteborg, national team) (b. 1935).^[56]
• 10 May
  • Lars-Gunnar Bodin, electronic musician (b. 1935).^[57]
  • Svante Thuresson, jazz musician ("Nygammal vals") (b. 1937).^[58]

June[edit]

• 9 June – Torgny Björk, musician, composer and singer (b. 1938).^[59]
• 11 June – Sara Wedlund, Olympic long-distance runner (1996) (b. 1975).^[60]
• 13 June – Sven Erlander, mathematician (b. 1934).^[61]
• 16 June
  • Bengt Göransson, politician (b. 1932).^[62]
  • Anders Nunstedt [sv], music journalist (b. 1970).^[63]
• 19 June – Ove Emanuelsson, Olympic sprint canoer (1960, 1964, 1968) (b. 1941).^[64]
• 23 June – Med Reventberg, actress (Ronia, the Robber's Daughter) (b. 1948).^[65]
• 27 June – Peps Persson, musician (b. 1946).^[66]
• 30 June – Inge Danielsson, footballer (Helsingborg, Ajax, national team) (b. 1941).^[67]

July[edit]

• 18 July – Tommy Engstrand, sports journalist and television host (b. 1939).^[68]
• 20 July
  • Curt-Eric Holmquist, conductor (Lotta på Liseberg), Eurovision Song Contest winner (1984) (b. 1948).^[69]
  • Lars Weiss [sv], journalist and news editor (b. 1946).^[70]
• 23 July – Claes Reimerthi, comic writer (The Phantom) (b. 1955).^[71]
• 31 July – Kenneth Johansson, politician and MP (1998–2012) (b. 1956).^[72]

August[edit]

• 4 August
  • Åke Lundqvist, actor (Beck – Mannen med ikonerna) (b. 1936).^[73]
  • Anders Pettersson, musician (Lasse Stefanz) (b. 1952).^[74]
• 10 August – Gun Ädel, Olympic cross-country skier (1964) (b. 1938).^[75]
• 11 August – Göran Zachrisson, sports journalist, cancer (b. 1938).^[76]
• 25 August – Gunilla Bergström, author of Alfie Atkins (b.1942).^[77]

October[edit]

• 21 October – Einár, 19, rapper (shot)^[78]
• 27 October – Benjamin Vallé, 47, musician (Viagra Boys)^[79]

Sports[edit]

• 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group B
• 2021 Allsvenskan
• 2021 Superettan

References[edit]