1917 in Denmark

Events from the year 1917 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Carl Theodor Zahle

Events

Undated

• Sovereignty of the Danish West Indies was officially transferred from Denmark to the United States, after the Treaty of the Danish West Indies was ratified.

Sports

• 26 April Silkeborg IF is founded.

Date unknown

• Kjøbenhavns Boldklub wins the 1916–17 Danish National Football Tournament by defeating Akademisk Boldklub 62 in the final.

Births

• 14 June – Lise Nørgaard, writer (died 2023)
• 18 June – Erik Ortvad, painter and illustrator (died 2008)
• 4 October Søren Georg Jensen, designer and sculptor (died 1982)
• 28 October Wermund Bendtsen, photographer (died 2003)
• 27 November – Arne Sørensen, footballer (died 1977)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 4 January Carl Ludwig Jessen, painter (born 1833)
• 30 January Gerhard Faye, factory manager (born 1846)
• 8 February Thomas Arboe, architect (born 1836)
• 26 February Hanna Hoffmann, sculptor and silversmith (born 1858)

AprilJune

• 5 May – Hans Smidth, painter (born 1839)
• 14 June – Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, politician (born 1844)
• 22 June Kristian Zahrtmann, painter (born 1843)

JulySeptember

• 14 July Anders Thiset, archivist (born 1850)
• 30 August Otto Haslund, painter (born 1842)

OctoberDecember

• 28 October Wermund Bendtsen, photographer (died 2003)
• 27 November Christian Christiansen, physicist (born 1843)
• 9 December Jakob Severin Deichmann Branth, theologian (born 1721)
• 18 December Christine Daugaard, writer (born 1831)
• 20 December August Hermann Ferdinand Carl Goos, politician and jurist (birn 1835)
• 21 December Peter Gottfred Ramm, military officer, landowner and company founder (born 1834)

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