• Monarch – Frederik IX^[1]
• Prime minister – Viggo Kampmann

• 28 March – The Danish Maritime and Commercial Court is created by act.

Badminton edit

• 14–17 March – All England Badminton Championships
  • Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Singles
  • Finn Kobberø and Jørgen Hammergaard Hansen win gold in Men's Doubles
  • Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold medal in Mixed Doubles.

Badminton edit

• 14–16 March – All England Badminton Championships
  • Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Singles
  • Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold medal in Mixed Doubles.

• 3 March – Bodil Jørgensen, actress
• 8 April – Lars Bom, actor
• 22 May – Dan Frost, cyclist
• 28 May – Frank Jensen, politician, lord mayor of Copenhagen
• 20 July – Tommy Christensen, footballer
• 26 September – Charlotte Fich, actress
• 19 November – Pernille Svarre, athlete^[2]
• 28 December – Kent Nielsen, footballer and manager

January–March edit

• 21 March – Axel Saltom ceramist (born 1889)

April–June edit

• 6 June – Frants Nielsen, sport shooter, competitor at the 1912 Summer Olympics (born 1874)

July–September edit

• 11 July – Elof Risebye, painter (born 1892)
• 18 September – Hans Denver, sport shooter, competitor at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics (born 1876)

October–December edit

• 8 November – Jais Nielsen, painter (born 1885)
• 20 December
  • Johannes Larsen, nature painter (born 1867)
  • Johan Frederik Steffensen, mathematician, statistician and actuary, professor of actuarial science at the University of Copenhagen 1923–43 (born 1873)

• 1961 in Danish television