1976 in Denmark

Events from the year 1976 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Margrethe II
• Prime minister – Anker Jørgensen

Events

Sports

• 6–7 April – With two gold medals and three silver medals, Denmark finishes as the second best nation at the 5th European Badminton Championships in Dublin, Ireland.

Date unknown

• Graeme Gilmore (AUS) and Dieter Kemper (FRG) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 2 February Gudrun Bojesen ballet dancer
• 6 February Kasper Hvidt, handballer
• 10 March Johan Wohlert, musician

AprilJune

• 25 April – Kenneth Cortsen, sport management researcher
• 26 June – Janus Friis, entrepreneur, co-founder of skype

JulySeptember

• 28 July – Rasmus Bjerg, actor, comedian
• 1 August Søren Galatius, mathematician
• 29 August – Jon Dahl Tomasson, footballer
• 1 September Heidi Albertsen, model

OctoberDecember

• 13 October – Cathrine Grage, speed skater, inline skater, and cyclist
• 2 November Andreas Mogensen, astronaut
• 14 December – Peter Gade, badminton player

Deaths

January–march

• 19 February Henrik Sørensen, writer (born 1897)
• 7 march – Tove Ditlevsen, poet and author (born 1917)

AprilJune

• 17 April – Henrik Dam, biochemist and physiologist (born 1895)
• 12 May – Kaj Gottlob, architect (born 1887)
• 3 June – Viggo Kampmann, politician, former prime minister (born 1910)

JulySeptember

• 21 September Nils Middelboe, football player (born 1887)
• 30 September Aage Fønss, opera singer (born 1887)

OctoberDecember

• 29 December Ingeborg Frederiksen, illustrator (born 1886)

See also

• 1976 in Danish television

References