1949 in Denmark

Events from the year 1949 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX
• Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft

Events

• 30 March – Prince Harald, uncle of King Frederik IX, dies in Copenhagen at age 72, following two years of illness.

Sport

Badminton

• 5 March Tonny Ahm wins gold in Women's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships.

Cycling

• 2228 August The 1949 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are held in Copenhagen.
• Knud Andersen wins gold in Men's individual pursuit.

Football

• KB wins the 1948–49 Danish 1st Division. It is their 10th Danish football championship.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 4 January Torben Hardenberg, goldsmith
• 27 January – Per Røntved, footballer (died 2023)
• 27 March – Poul Ruders, composer

AprilJune

• 22 April – Per Bak Jensen, photographer

JulySeptember

• 14 August – Morten Olsen, football player
• 14 September – Tommy Seebach, singer, composer, and keyboardist (died 2003)

OctoberDecember

• 5 October – Thomas Clausen, jazz pianist
• 11 December – Peter Brixtofte, politician (died 2016)
• 19 December – Sebastian, singer, guitarist and composer

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 3 February Harald Simonsen, businessman (born 1873)
• 25 February Edvard Nielsen-Stevns, writer (born 1880)
• 6 March – Robert Storm Petersen, cartoonist, painter, inventor, writer (born 1882)
• 30 March – Prince Harald, royal, army officer (born 1876)

AprilJune

• 27 May – Martin Knudsen, physicist and researcher after whom the Knudsen gas state, the Knudsen number, and the Knudsen layer are named (born 1871)
• 28 June – Laurits Larsen, Olympic sport shooter and bronze medalist (born 1872)

JulySeptember

• 10 August Birger Wøllner Gaarn, composer and organist (born 1881)
• 21 August Ole Falkentorp, architect (born 1886)
• 13 September – August Krogh, professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen 1916–1945, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1920 (born 1874)
• 28 September – Nancy Dalberg, composer (born 1881)

OctoberDecember

• 7 November Ville Jais Nielsen, painter and sculptor (born 1886)
• 12 November – Christian Schmiegelow, businessman (born 1859)
• 22 December Svend Olufsen, engineer and company founder (born 1897)

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