Events in the year 1961 in Spain.
Incumbents Caudillo: Francisco Franco
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
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