1922 in Denmark

Events from the year 1922 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Niels Neergaard

Events

• 21–23 June The foundation stone for the Dante Column on Danttes Plads in Copenhagen is set.

Sports

Undated

• KB wins their fifth Danish football championship by defeating B 1901 42 in the final of the 1921–22 Danish National Football Tournament.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 9 March – Count Flemming of Rosenborg (died 2002 in France)

AprilJune

• 12 April Erik Ninn-Hansen, politician (died 2014)
• 19 April Poul Andersen, resistance member (died 2006)
• 25 April Hans Tabor, diplomat (died 2003)
• 12 June – Leif Thybo, composer (died 2001)
• 17 June Lisbet Dæhlin, ceramist (died 2012)
• 19 June – Aage Bohr, nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)

JulySeptember

• 3 July – Viggo Rivad, photographer (died 2016)
• 13 July – Anker Jørgensen, politician, prime minister of Denmark (died 2016)
• 28 September – Birgit Fogh-Andersen, politician (died 2012)

OctoberDecember

• 19 December Niels Holst-Sørensen, athlete and airforce officer (died 2023)
• 20 December Svend Wiig Hansen, sculptor and painter (died 1997)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 22 January – Fredrik Bajer, writer (born 1837)
• 9 February – Harald Krenchel, fencer (born 1884)
• 24 March Johanne Christine Petersen, school principal (born 1847)

AprilJune

• 14 April – Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann, architect (born 1837)
• 9 May – Charlotte Eilersgaard, author and editor (born 1858)
• 21 May Alfred Benzon, pharmacist and industrialist (born 1855)

JulySeptember

• 17 July – , museum director (born 1836)
• 4 September – Frederik Jacobsen, actor (born 1876)
• 19 September Philip Schou, businessman (born 1838)
• 22 September – Ida Falbe-Hansen, educator and women's activist (born 1849)

OctoberDecember

• 25 October
• Emilie Mundt, painter (born 1842)
• Niels Christian Hansen, painter (born 1834)
• 4 December – Hermann Baagøe Storck, architect (born 1839)

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