1946 in Denmark

Events from the year 1946 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Knud Kristensen

Events

• 5 January Flemming Helweg-Larsen is executed executed in the first application of the capital punishment in Denmark in 54 years.
• 30 August – Princess Anne-Marie, future Queen of Greece, is born to Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Ingrid of Sweden.

Sports

Football

• B03 wins the 1945–46 Danish 1st Division. It is their ninth Danish football championship.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 9 January – Mogens Lykketoft, politician
• 17 February Valdemar Bandolowski, sailor
• 15 March – Krass Clement, photographer
• 19 March – Dan Turèll, writer (died 1993)

AprilJune

• 5 May Leif Mortensen, cyclist
• 27 May – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, jazz bassist (died 2005)
• 2 June – Inga Nielsen, opera singer (died 2008)
• 25 June Ulrik le Fevre, footballer and manager (died 2024)
• 29 June – Gitte Hænning, actress

JulySeptember

• 30 August – Princess Anne-Marie, future Queen of Greece

OctoberDecember

• 27 October – Peter Martins, ballet dancer, choreographer
• 28 October Niels Fredborg, cyclist
• 3 November Holger Pedersen, astronomer

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 5 January Flemming Helweg-Larsen, Nazi Germany collaborator and murderer (born 1911)
• 3 February – Carl Theodor Zahle, politician, Council President of Denmark (born 1866)
• 9 March – William Wain Prior, major-general, commander-in-chief of the Royal Danish Army 1939–41 (born 1876)
• 26 March – Gerhard Heilmann, paleontologist, scientific illustrator (born 1859)

AprilJune

• 26 April – Oluf Ring, composer (born 1886)
• 20 May – Jacob Ellehammer, inventor (born 1871)
• 26 May – Petrine Sonne, stage and film actress (born 1870)

JulySeptember

• 13 July – Valdemar Rørdam, national conservative poet, author of "Denmark in a Thousand Years" (born 1872)
• 31 August – Paul von Klenau, composer and conductor (born 1883)

OctoberDecember

• 10 October – Eyvind Johan-Svendsen, stage and film actor (born 1896)
• 15 December – Johannes Friis-Skotte, politician, Minister of Public Works (Transport) 1924–1926 and 1929–1935 (born 1874)

Date unknown

• Johanne Agerskov, intermediary (born 1873)

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