Contents

• Incumbents
• Births
• Deaths
• See also
• References

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← 1960 1959 1958 1961 in Spain → 1962 1963 1964
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	Other events of 1961 List of years in Spain

Events in the year 1961 in Spain.

Incumbents

• Caudillo: Francisco Franco ^[1]

Births

• June 18 – Manuel Pereira, fencer
• July 23 – Gonzalo Arconada Echarri, football manager
• November 4 – Carlos García Cantarero, football manager
• December 24 – Silvia Fontana, swimmer

Deaths

• April 7 – Jesús Guridi, Spanish Basque composer (b. 1886)
• April 19 – Manuel Quiroga, Spanish violinist (b. 1892)
• August 1 – Domingo Pérez Cáceres, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1892)
• December 23 – Fanny Schoonheyt, Dutch Communist Lieutenant in the Spanish Civil War. (b. 1912)
• Miguel Gómez Bao – Spanish-born Argentine actor (b. 1894)

See also

• 1961 in Spanish television
• List of Spanish films of 1961

References