1959 in Denmark

Events from the year 1959 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX
• Prime minister – H. C. Hansen

Events

• 7 January MS Hans Hedtoft departs from Copenhagen on her maiden journey to Greenland.
• 14 January M/S Hans Hedtoft arrives at JulianehÃ¥b.
• 30 January M/S Hans Hedtoft sinks on the way back to Denmark. 95 lives are lost.

Sports

Date unknown

• Palle Lykke Jensen (DEN) and Kay Werner Nielsen (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 14 January Lars Høgh, footballer
• 18 January Bjarne Henriksen, actor
• 25 February Poul Erik Tøjner, art historian and museum director

AprilJune

• 2 April – John Lauridsen, footballer
• 2 May – Lone Scherfig, film director
• 22 May – Kenneth Brylle, footballer
• 26 May Ole Bornedal, film director
• 5 June – Jesper Worre, cyclist

JulySeptember

• 22 August Pia Gjellerup, politician
• 25 August Christian Kettel Thomsen, governor of Danmarks Nationalbank
• 20 September Mona Juul, politician

OctoberDecember

• 8 October Erik Gundersen, speedway driver
• 13 November Lene Hau, physicist
• 27 November – Pernille Sams, real estate agent, lawyer and politician
• 26 December Hans Nielsen, speedway rider

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 12 January – Edvard Eriksen, sculptor, creator of the Little Mermaid statue (born 1876)
• 17 February Ellen Dahl, writer (born 1884)
• 24 February Frederik Zeuthen, economist (born 1888)

AprilJune

• 13 April – Dagmar Hansen, cabaret singer and stage performer, Denmark's first pin-up girl (born 1871)
• 21 April – Hakon Andersen, organist and composer (born 1875)
• 30 April Daniel Andersen, composer, sculptor and ceramist (born 1885)

JulySeptember

• 8 August Harald Christensen, wrestler (born 1884)
• 18 August Johan Ankerstjerne, cinematographer (born 1886)
• 19 August Gudrun Bjørner, teacher and politician (born 1898)
• 2 September – Sigvart Werner, amateur photographer famous for his artistic landscape photographs (born 1872)
• 20 September William Scharff, painter (born 1886)

OctoberDecember

• 3 November Frederik Torm, theologian (died 1870)
• 9 December – John Olsen, film producer (born 1888)
• 13 December – Ingrid Vang Nyman, illustrator (born 1916)

See also

• 1959 in Danish television

References