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1957 in Denmark
Summary
Events from the year
1957 in Denmark
.
←
1956
1955
1954
1957
in
Denmark
→
1958
1959
1960
Decades:
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
See also:
Other events of 1957
List of years in Denmark
Incumbents
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Monarch –
Frederik IX
[1]
Prime minister –
H. C. Hansen
Events
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3 March - Denmark places third in
Eurovision Song Contest
Sports
edit
Badminton
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20–25 March –
All England Badminton Championships
Anni Hammergaard Hansen
and
Kirsten Thorndahl
win gold in Women's Doubles
Finn Kobberø
and
Kirsten Thorndahl
win gold in Mixed Doubles.
Football
edit
28 April –
AGF
wins the
1956–57 Danish Cup
by defeating
Esbjerg fB
2–0 in the final.
Date unknown
edit
Fritz Pfenninger
(SUI) and
Jean Roth
(SUI) win the
Six Days of Copenhagen
six-day track cycling race
.
Births
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January–March
edit
31 January –
Henrik Dam Kristensen
, politician
17 February –
Lars Brygmann
, actor
30 March –
Stig L. Andersson
, landscape architect
April–June
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6 April –
Jesper Bank
, sailor
28 April –
Tøger Seidenfaden
, journalist, editor-in-chief of
Politiken
(died
2011
)
9 May –
Kristian Levring
, film director
17 May –
Peter Høeg
, writer of fiction
July–September
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11 September –
Preben Elkjær
, footballer
5 October –
Jakob Nielsen
, computer scientist
20 November –
John Eriksen
, John Eriksen (died
2002
)
13 December –
Lars Schwander
, photographer, gallerist
Deaths
edit
January–March
edit
2 January –
Søren Absalon Larsen
, physicist active in the field of
electroacoustics
; the
Larsen effect
was named after him (born
1871
)
April–June
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14 April –
Thorvald Madsen
, physician and bacteriologist (born
1870
)
18 April –
Jens Laursøn Emborg
, organist and composer (born
1876
)
6 May –
Ebbe Kornerup
, writer and painter (born
1874
)
14 May –
Thit Jensen
, novelist and author of short stories, plays and society critical articles (born
1876
)
21 May –
Jens Søndergaard
, painter (born
1895
)
26 May –
Peter Bang
, engineer (born
1900
)
9 June –
Aksel Jørgensen
, painter and wood engraver (born
1883
)
17 June –
Olaf Rude
, painter (born
1886
)
July–September
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5 July –
Magdalene Lauridsen
, educator (born
1873
)
2 September –
Peter Freuchen
, explorer, writer and traveller (born
1886
)
Date unknown
edit
Axel Andersen Byrval
, amateur football player and manager,
national football team
manager 1913–15 and 1917–18 (born
1875
)
See also
edit
1957 in Danish television
References
edit
^
"Frederick IX: king of Denmark".
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
16 June
2019
.