1939 in Denmark
Events from the year 1939 in Denmark.
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Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian X[1]
- Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning
Events
Births
Sport
Badminton
- 12 March – Tage Madsen wins gold in Men's Single at the All England Badminton Championships.
Cycling
- Karel Kaers (BEL) and Omer De Bruycker (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen sox-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.
Deaths
- 14 January – Prince Valdemar of Denmark (born 1858)
- 26 March – Peter Hertz, art historian (born 1874)
- 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)
- 3 August – August Enna, composer (born 1859)
- 4 October – Jens Lind, apothecary, botanist and mycologist (born 1874)
- 16 October – Ludolf Nielsen, composer, violinist, conductor and pianist (born 1876)
- 20 December – Fritz Syberg, artist and illustrator (born 1862)
References
- "Christian X: king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
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