1939 in Denmark
Events from the year 1939 in Denmark.
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Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian X[1]
- Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning
Events
- 29 November – Erling Dahl-Iversen gives the last lecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Surgery on Bredgade in Copenhagen.[2]
Sport
Badminton
- 12 March – Tage Madsen wins gold in Men's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships.
Cycling
- Karel Kaers (BEL) and Omer De Bruycker (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Footnall
- 5 March – Næstved Boldklub is founded.
- B 93 wins their seventh Danish football championship by winning the 1938–39 Danish Championship League.
Births
- 1 February – Dario Campeotto, performer (died 2023)
Deaths
January–March
- 14 January – Prince Valdemar of Denmark (born 1858)
- 12 Gebruary – S. P. L. Sørensen, chemist (born 1868)
- 26 March – Peter Hertz, art historian (born 1874)
April–June
- 7 April – Mary Steen, photographer (born 1856)
- 24 April – Harald Scavenius, diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1920–22 (born 1873)
- 4 June – Carl Cohn Haste, blind pianist, organist and composer, music teacher at the Royal Blind Institute, first president of the Danish Association of the Blind (born 1874)
July–September
- 3 August – August Enna, composer (born 1859)
- 4 August – Aage Giødesen, painter (born 1863)
October–December
- 4 October – Jens Lind, apothecary, botanist and mycologist (born 1874)
- 16 October – Ludolf Nielsen, composer, violinist, conductor and pianist (born 1876)
- 8 November – Henning Christophersen, politician and EU commissioner (died 2016)
- 15 November – Erik Hansen, canoeist (died 2014)
- 20 December – Fritz Syberg, artist and illustrator (born 1862)
References
- "Christian X: king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- "Sidste dag på Kirurgisk Akademi". Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen (in Danish). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
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