1960 in Denmark

Events from the year 1960 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX
• Prime minister – H. C. Hansen (until 19 February), Viggo Kampmann

Events

• 15 November – The 1960 parliamentary election is held.
• 28 November – The Danish Academy is founded.

Sports

Badminton

• 1923 March All England Badminton Championships
• Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Single
• Erland Kops and Poul-Erik Nielsen win gold in Men's Doubles
• Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold medal in Mixed Doubles.

Date unknown

• Emile Severeyns (BEL) and Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 14 January – Per Fly, film director

Ø 25 February Joakim Garff, theologian and Søren Kierkegaard researcher

AprilJune

• 15 April – Susanne Bier, film director
• 11 May Jesper Asholt, actor

JulySeptember

• 6 July Liselotte Plesner, civil servant and ambasador
• 8 July – Susanne Nielsson, breaststroke swimmer
• 3 August – Kim Milton Nielsen, football referee
• 10 August Lone Gram, microbiologist
• 19 August Morten Andersen, American-football player
• 24 August – Kim Christofte, footballer
• 15 September Connie Hedegaard, politician and public intellectual

OctoberDecember

• 29 October – Jens Winther, jazz trumpeter (died 2011)
• 2 December – Anders Hejlsberg, software engineer

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 21 January – Launy Grøndahl, composer and conductor (born 1886)
• 27 January – Gudmund Hatt, archaeologist and cultural geographer (born 1884)
• 19 February – H. C. Hansen, politician and Prime Minister 1955–60 (born 1906)
• 27 March – Holger Jacobsen, architect (born 1876)

AprilJune

• 18 April – C. L. David, lawyer, art collector and philanthropist (born 1878)
• 24 June – Harald Moltke, nobleman, painter and author (born 1871)

JulySeptember

• 27 July Julie Vinter Hansen, astronomer (born 1890)
• 16 August – Christine Swane, painter associated with the "Funen Painters" (born 1876)
• 26 August – Knud Enemark Jensen, racing cyclist (born 1936)
• 1 September – Knud Heglund, actor (born 1894)
• 15 September Else Frölich, actress (born 1880 in France)

OctoberDecember

• 4 October Oscar Gundlach-Pedersen, architect (born 1886)
• 11 December – Svend Rindom, screenwriter and actor (born 1884)
• 12 December – Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen, sculptor and ceramist, model master of Bing & Grøndahl 1897–1917, artistic director of Norden 1917–1925 (born 1874)
• 13 December – Malvina Mehrn, animal rights activist (born 1862).
• 22 December – Sophus Black, telegraph manager and art collector (born 1882)

See also

• 1960 in Danish television

References