• Monarch – Christian X (until 20 April), Frederik IX^[1]
• Prime minister – Knud Kristensen (until 13 November), Hans Hedtoft^[2]

• 20 April – King Christian X dies, and is succeeded on the throne by his elder son, King Frederik IX.^[1]
• 13 November – Prime Minister Knud Kristensen resigns following a motion of no confidence, and is replaced by Hans Hedtoft.^[2]

Football edit

• Ab wins 1946–47 Danish 1st Division. It is their sixth Danish football championship.

Swimming edit

• 10–14 September – Denmark wins five gold medals and one bronze medal at the 1947 European Aquatics Championships.

Other edit

• 29 June The Round Zealand sailing race takes place for the first time.

January–March edit

• 23 February – Pia Kjærsgaard, politician

April–June edit

• 29 April – Jacob Holdt, photographer
• 30 April – Birthe Neumann, actor

July–September edit

• 12 July – Anne Marie Løn, author
• 16 July – Anders Koppel, musician
• 2 August – Sonja Hauberg, writer (born 1918)
• 4 September – Claus Hjort Frederiksen, politician
• 27 September – Jesper Tørring, athlete

October–December edit

• 27 December – Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, businessman and investor

January–March edit

• 28 May – Hanna Adler, educator (born 1759)
• 10 January – August Blom, film director, production leader and pioneer of silent films (born 1869)
• 15 January – Georg Carl Amdrup, admiral, polar explorer (born 1866)

April–June edit

• 20 April – Christian X, King of Denmark (born 1870)^[3]
• 29 April – Ove Paulsen, botanist, professor at the Pharmaceutical College in Copenhagen 1920–1947 (born 1874)
• 4 May – Cathrine Horsbøl, furnituremaker (born 1872)
• 3 June – Sigurd Wandel, painter (born 1875)
• 18 June – Ejnar Martin Kjær, teacher and politician (born 1893)
• 25 June – Oluf Olsson, gymnast, silver medallist at the 1906 Intercalated Games, bronze medallist at the 1912 Summer Olympics (born 1873)