1958 in Denmark
Events from the year 1958 in Denmark.
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Incumbents
- Monarch – Frederick IX[1]
- Prime minister – H. C. Hansen
Events
Sports
Badminton
- 19–23 March – All England Badminton Championships
- Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Singles
- Erland Kops and Poul-Erik Nielsen win gold in Men's Doubles
Date unknown
- Emile Severeyns (BEL) and Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Births
January–March
- 23 January – Bo Lidegaard, historian and editor-in-chief
- 26 March – Michael Madsen, light-heavyweight boxer
- 4 April – Morten Frost, badminton player
April–June
- 4 April – Morten Frost, badminton player
- 22 April – Jesper Garnell, boxer
- 26 April – Giancarlo Esposito, actor
- 3 May – Sandi Toksvig, Danish-British comedian
- 11 June – Nille Juul-Sørensen, architect
July–September
- 7 July – Michala Petri, recorder player
- 11 July – Hank Shermann, artist
- 8 September – Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, paleoclimatologist
- 11 September – Kim Fupz Aakeson, author, screenwriter
- 14 September – Mikael Birkkjær, actor
- 24 September – Benedikte Hansen, actress
- 28 September – Peter Gantzler, actor
Deaths
January–March
- 11 March – Ole Kirk Christiansen, entrepreneur and businessman, inventor of Lego (born 1891)
- 12 March – Princess Ingeborg of Denmark
- 14 March – Marius Lefèrve, gymnast, Olympic silver medalist in team, Swedish system, in 1912 (born 1875)
April–June
- 4 April – Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, artist (born 1753)
- 24 June – Ole Bendixen, explorer, merchant and author (born 1869)
July–September
- 12 July – Gudmund Schütte, philologist and historian (born 1872)
- 18 September – William Thalbitzer, philologist, professor of Eskimo studies at the University of Copenhagen (born 1873)
- 28 September – Henrik Malberg, theater and cinema actor (born 1873)
October–December
- 4 December – Emilie Demant Hatt, artist, writer and ethnographer (born 1873)
See also
References
- "Frederick IX | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
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