1961 in Chile

Incumbents

• President of Chile: Jorge Alessandri

  Events

March

• 5 March – Chilean parliamentary election, 1961

  April

• 3 April – LAN Chile Flight 210 crashes in the Andes.

  Births

• 1 January – Andrea Tessa
• 9 January – Margot Kahl
• 20 January – Patricio Yáñez
• 24 January – Guido Girardi
• 31 January – Aldo Schiappacasse
• 26 April – José A. Santos
• 27 April – Mónica Regonesi
• 1 June – Rubén Espinoza
• 6 June – Tom Araya
• 1 July – Bastián Bodenhöfer
• 27 July – Harold Mayne-Nicholls
• 30 August – Leonel Contreras
• 17 September – Sergio Marchant
• 29 September – Mariela Griffor
• 25 November – Ricardo Raineri
• 7 December – Pablo Simonetti
• 27 December – Fernando Díaz Seguel

  Deaths

• 25 May – Lenka Franulic