1907 in Denmark

Events from the year 1907 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VIII
• Prime minister – J. C. Christensen

Events

Culture

Music

• 30 November Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 4 is for the first time performed in public in the Odd Fellows Mansion.

Sports

• Dansk Motor Klub is founded.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 4 February Gwili Andre, model and actress (died 1959)

AprilJuly

• 19 June – Børge Jessen, mathematician (died 1993)
• 4 July – Henning Holck-Larsen, engineer, co-founder of Indian engineering company Larsen & Toubro (died 2003)

OctoberDecember

• 21 October – Nina Stroganova, a prima ballerina (died in New York, 1994)
• 4 November – Henry Heerup, painter, sculptor (died 1993)
• 12 December Svend Olufsen, engineer and company founder (died 1949)
• 17 December Henning Karmark, film producer (died 1989)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 16 January – Frederik Georg Emil Rostrup (born 1831)
• 24 January – Vilhelm Dahlerup, architect (born 1836)
• 11 February – Christen Dalsgaard, painter (born 1824)
• 17 February Axel Helsted, painter (born 1847)

AprilJune

• 10 April Emilie West, educator (born 1844)
• 28 May – Valdemar Tofte, violinist (born 1832)

JulySeptember

• 10 August Alfhilda Mechlenburg, writer (died 1830)

OctoberDecember

• 14 November – August Ferdinand Michael van Mehren, philologist (born 1822)
• 22 November – Ditlev Torm, businessman (born 1836)
• 25 November – Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, arctic explorer, author and ethnologist (born 1872)

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