1936 in Denmark

Events from the year 1936 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Events

• 1–16 August – Denmark participates in the 1936 Summer Olympics and wins five medals.
• 22 September – The 1936 Landsting elections are held.

Undated

• The political party Danish Unity is established.
• The Viborg Handball Club is established.

Sports

Cycling

• Albert Billiet (BEL) and Werner Grundahl Hansen (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
• Jan Pijnenburg (NED) and Frans Slaats (NED) and win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Football

• Frem wins their fourth Danish football championship by winning the 1935–36 Danish Championship League.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 13 March – Finn Kobberø, badminton player (d. 2009)
• 19 March – Birthe Wilke, singer
• 29 March – Mogens Camre, politician (d. 2016)

AprilJune

• 28 April – John Tchicai, jazz musician and composer (d. 2012)
• 30 June – Flemming Flindt, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)

JulySeptember

• 10 August – Malene Schwartz, actress
• 17 September – Jan Gehl, architect, urban planner

OctoberDecember

• 1 November – Mimi Heinrich, actress and writer (d. 2017)
• 30 November – Knud Enemark Jensen, racing cyclist (d. 1960)
• 7 December – Annette Stroyberg, actress (d. 2005)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 3 February Heinrich Wenck, architect (born 1851)
• 4 February Wilhelm Hansen, businessman and art collector (born 1868)
• 22 January – Louis Glass, composer (b. 1864)
• 22 February – Johan Skjoldborg, novelist, playwright and memoirist (b. 1861)

AprilJune

• 23 April – Thomas Bærentzen, sculptor (b. 1869)

JulySeptember

• 3 August – Carl William Hansen, author, Luciferian, wandering bishop and occultist (b. 1872)
• 2 September Niels Neergaard, politician (born 1854)
• 27 September Hans Peter Prior, industrialist (born 1866)

OctoberDecember

• 9 October – Carl Christensen, Denmark's last executioner (b. 1869)
• 22 October – Hedevig Quiding, singer and music critic (b. 1867)
• 24 November – J. A. D. Jensen, naval officer and Arctic explorer (b. 1849)
• 13 December Harald Ludvig Westergaard, economist, statician (born 1853)

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