• Monarch – Frederik IX^[1]
• Prime minister – Erik Eriksen

• 23 January – The hospital ship MS Jutlandia departs from Copenhagen, bound for Jorea.

Badminton edit

• 7–11 March – All England Badminton Championships
  • Aase Schiøtt Jacobsen wins gold in Women's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships.
  • Tonny Ahm and Kirsten Thorndahl wins gold in Women's Doubles
  • Poul Holm and Tonny Ahm win gold in Mixed Doubles

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• Kay Werner Nielsen (DEN) and Oscar Plattner (SUI) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

• 1 March – Birger Jensen, footballer
• 12 May – Jacob Groth, film score composer
• 25 July – Frank Aaen, politician
• 7 November – Anne Grethe Jensen, equestrian
• 17 November – Czeslaw Kozon, prelate of the Catholic Church

• 6 April – Marie-Sophie Nielsen, communist leader and founding member of the Danish Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Party of Denmark (born 1875)
• 14 May – Kristian Hansen Kofoed, politician (born 1879)
• 26 June – Gerda Henning, designer (died 1891)
• 28 June – Thora Daugaard, women's rights activist, pacifist, editor and translator (born 1874)^[2]
• 19 August – Christian Geisler, organist and composer (born 1869)
• 23 September – Erik Arup, historian (born 1876)