• Monarch – Christian IX^[1]
• Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup

• 12 July – Odense Boldklub is founded.

April–June edit

• 30 May – Emil Reesen, composer and conductor (died 1964)
• 10 June – Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg (died 1940 in Morocco)
• 16 June – Gundorph Albertus, silversmith (died 1969)

July–September edit

• 3 July – Elith Pio, actor (died 1983)

October–December edit

• 5 October – Nils Middelboe, football player (died 1087)
• 9 November – Kaj Gottlob, architect (died 1976)

• 28 March – Ditlev Gothard Monrad, politician and bishop (born 1811)
• 30 April – J.C. Jacobsen, brewer and industrialist, founder of Carlsberg (born 1811)
• 25 August – Thomas Lange, novelist (born 1829)
• 13 November – Hans Schjellerup, astronomer (died 1827)