1927 in Denmark

Events from the year 1927 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Thomas Madsen-Mygdal

Events

• 15 August Experimenterende Danske Radioamatører is founded.

Sports

• 26 June B 93 wins their second Danish football championship by defeating Skovshoved IF 51 in the final of the 1926–27 Landsfodboldturneringen at Københavns Idrætspark.
• 1 October Køge Boldklub is founded.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 9 January Thorkild Hansen, author (died 1989)
• 26 March – Palle Sørensen, convicted murderer (died 2018)

AprilJune

• 1 May Greta Andersen, swimmer (died 2023)
• 4 June Henning Carlsen, filmmaker (died 2014)

JulySeptember

• 5 August Ib Georg Jensen, ceramist, designer and author (died 2021)
• 19 August – Gert Petersen, journalist and politician (died 2009)
• 24 Aigist Iørn Piø, archivist (died 1998)

OctoberDecember

• 8 November Jørgen Reenberg, actor (died 2023)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 14 January Niels Thorkild Rovsingm surgeon (born 1862)
• 15 January Harald Giersing, painter (born 1851)
• 9 February ** Peter Mærsk Møller, sea captain (born 1836)
• 19 February – Georg Brandes, critic and scholar (born 1842)
• 23 February Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, composer (born 1847 in Iceland)
• 25 March – Johanne Hesbeck, photographer (born 1873)
• 27 March – Klaus Berntsen, politician (born 1844)

AprilJune

• 12 May Vilhelm Thomsen, linguist (born 1842)
• 27 May – Oscar Stribolt, stage and film actor during the silent film era (born 1872)
• 28 June – Otto Bache, painter (born 1839)

JulySeptember

• 31 August – Alhed Larsen, painter (born 1872)
• 19 September – Michael Ancher, painter (born 1849)

OctoberDecember

• 11 November Wilhelm Johannsen, pharmacist and botanist (born 1857)
• 21 November – Laurits Tuxen, painter and sculptor (born 1853)

References