Events from the year 1917 in Sweden

• Monarch – Gustaf V
• Prime Minister - Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Carl Swartz, and Nils Edén

• 10–18 February – The Nordic Games take place in Stockholm.^[1]
• 1 and 16 September: The 1917 Swedish general election result in the fall of the rightwing government in favor of the liberals.
• The child serial killer Hilda Nilsson is put on trial.
• The movie A Man There Was has its premier

• 3 February – Arne Sucksdorff, film director (died 2001)

• 14 July – Paul Peter Waldenström, theologian (born 1838)
• 10 August - Hilda Nilsson, serial killer (born 1876)
• 5 November - Louise Hammarström, chemist (born 1849)
• Wilhelmina Lagerholm, photographer (born 1826)
• Sophie Cysch, singer (born 1847)