Events in the year 2017 in Sweden.

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime minister – Stefan Löfven

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• 20 February – Rinkeby riots
• 7 April – 2017 Stockholm truck attack
• 1 July – The new Name Act of 2017 takes legal effect, replacing the Name Act of 1982

• 22 October –
  • Tennis: Juan Martín del Potro defeats Grigor Dimitrov 6–4, 6–2 in the final of the 2017 Stockholm Open singles.^[1]
  • Tennis: Oliver Marach and doubles partner Mate Pavić defeat Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer in the 2017 Stockholm Open doubles.^[2]

• 8 January – Nicolai Gedda, operatic tenor (b. 1925).
• 9 January – Ulf Dinkelspiel, politician (b. 1939).^[3]
• 23 January – Katja of Sweden, fashion designer (b. 1920).^[4]
• 25 January – Siewert Öholm, journalist, television presenter (b. 1939).^[5]
• 7 February – Hans Rosling, medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker (b. 1948).^[6]
• 16 February – Bengt Gustavsson, footballer and manager (b. 1928).
• 1 June – Rosa Taikon, silversmith (b. 1926).
• 13 June – Ulf Stark, author (b. 1944).
• 15 June – Stina Haage, gymnast (b. 1924).^[7]
• 27 June – Michael Nyqvist, actor (b. 1960).
• 10 September – Hans Alfredson, actor (b. 1931).
• 17 November – Rikard Wolff, actor and singer (b. 1958).

• 2017 in the European Union
• 2017 in Europe