• Monarch – Christian X^[1]
• Prime minister – German military rule

• Frem win their sixth Danish football championship by winning the 1943–44 Danish War Tournament.

January–March edit

• 5 March – Peter Brandes, artist

April–June edit

• 8 April – Anders Refn, film editor and director
• 10 April – Jørgen Jensen, athlete (died 2009)
• 11 April – Joen Bille, actor
• 2 June – Poul Richardt Høj Jensen, sailor

July–September edit

• 5 October – Nils Malmros, film director

October–December edit

• 5 October – Nils Malmros, filmmaker
• 7 October – Claus Bjørn, author and historian (died 2005)
• 13 November – Jesper Klein, actor and media personality (died 2011)
• 21 November – Tom Bogs, bixer (died 2023)

Full date unknown edit

• Niels Fennet, businessman

• 3 January – Aage Hertel, actor (born 1873)
• 4 January – Kaj Munk, playwright and Lutheran priest (born 1898)
• 21 February – Tom Bogs, boxer
• 1 May – Paul Gustav Fischer, painter (born 1860)
• 7 September – Ole Olsen, sport shooter, Olympic bronze medalist in team free rifle in 1912 (born 1869)

Date unknown edit

• November – Jorgen Moeller, chess master (born 1873)