1931 in Denmark

Events from the year 1931 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Events

• 31 August – Karen Blixen returns to Denmark after living 28 years in Kenya, settling at her native Rungstedlund.

The arts

Music

• 14 August – Premiere performance of Carl Nielsen's Commotio, the composer's last major work, in Aarhus Cathedral.

Sports

Cycling

• 21–30 August The 1931 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are held in Copenhagen
• Willy Hansen wins gold in men's sprint.
• Helger Harder, Willy Gervin and Anker Meyer-Andersen win gold, silver and bronze in men's sprint at the Amateur event.
• 26 August Henry Hansen wins gold in Amateur Road Race at the 1931 UCI Road World Championships.

Football

• Frem wins their second Danish football championship by winning the 1930–31 Danish Championship League.
• 4 August Holbæk B&I is founded.

Births

• 7 July – Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt, film director and screenwriter (died 2018)
• 15 December – Klaus Rifbjerg, writer (died 2015)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 16 January – Carl Hansen Ostenfeld, botanist (born 1873)
• 18 February – Peter Elfelt, photographer (born 1866)

AprilJune

• 11 April Sophus Claussen, writer (born 1754)
• 15 April – Knud V. Engelhardt, industrial designer (born 1882)
• 4 May – Christian Klengenberg, whaler, trapper and trader (born 1869)
• 2 June – Harald Høffding, philosopher and theologian (born 1843)
• 7 June – Arnold Krog, designer (born 1856)
• 17 June Holger F. Struer, chemist and company founder (born 1846)

JulySeptember

• 8 August – Einar Hein, landscape painter associated with the "Skagen Painters" (born 1875)
• 30 August Emilie Sannom, silent film actress and aerial acrobat (born 1886)
• 11 September Maria Nielsen, historian and educator (born 1882)
• 16 September Niels Nielsen, mathematician (born 1865
• 23 September – Asger Skovgaard Ostenfeld, engineer (born 1866)

OctoberDecember

• 3 October – Carl Nielsen, composer (born 1865)
• 20 December – Edvard Brandes, politician, author and editor (born 1847)

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