1941 in Denmark

Events from the year 1941 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Events

Sports

• Frem wings their fifth Danish football championship by winning the 1940–41 Danish War Tournament.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 8 January – Ole Søltoft, actor (died 1999)
• 20 February Nina Hole, artist (died 2016)
• 4 March Jannik Hastrup, writer, director, producer, illustrator and animator.
• 22 March – Hugo Rasmussen, jazz bassist (died 2015)

AprilJune

• 24 April Ole Sporring, painter and illustrator
• 19 May
• Ritt Bjerregaard, politician (died 2023)
• Erik Reitzel, engineer (died 2012)
• 2 June Peter Hansen, diplomat

JulySeptember

• 25 July – Britta Schall Holberg, politician (died 2022)
• 25 August Holger Bech Nielsen. physicist
• 29 August Ole Ritter, cyclist

OctoberDecember

• 26 October Harald Nielsen, footballer (died 2015)
• 1 November – Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, politician (died 2022)
• 6 November – Grethe Fenger Møller, Danish politician
• 28 November – Jesper Thilo, jazz saxophonist

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 15 January Erik Raadal, painter (born 1905)
• 14 March – Herluf Zahle, barrister with the Supreme Court, career diplomat, President of the League of Nations 1928–29 (born 1873)

AprilJune

• 10 May – Gustav Bartholin Hagen, architect (born 1873)
• 20 June – Peder Mørk Mønsted, painter (born 1859)

JulySeptember

• 25 July – Christian Sonne, politician (born 1859)
• 30 August – Peder Oluf Pedersen, engineer and physicist, IEEE Medal of Honor recipient in 1930 (born 1874)
• 28 September Kirstine Meyer, physicist (born 1861)

OctoberDecember

• 3 November – Jens Christian Kofoed, architect (born 1864)
• 26 November – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, sculptor (born 1861)
• 12 December – Agnes Lunn, painter and sculptor (born 1850)

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