1939 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1939 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1939 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X ^[1]
• Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Events

• 29 November – Erling Dahl-Iversen gives the last lecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Surgery on Bredgade in Copenhagen. ^[2]

Main article: 1939

Sport

Badminton

• 12 March – Tage Madsen wins gold in Men's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships.

Cycling

• Karel Kaers (BEL) and Omer De Bruycker (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Football

• 5 March – Næstved Boldklub is founded.
• B 93 wins their seventh Danish football championship by winning the 1938–39 Danish Championship League.

Births

• 17 January – Niels Helveg Petersen, politician (died 2017)
• 22 January – Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (d. 1996)
• 1 February – Dario Campeotto, performer (died 2023)
• 27 March – Per Golst, film director and producer (died 2025)
• 13 July – John Danielsen, Danish football midfielder
• 2 November – Svend Åge Madsen, novelist
• 8 November – Henning Christophersen, politician and EU commissioner (died 2016)
• 15 November – Erik Hansen, canoeist (died 2014)

Deaths

January–March

• 14 January – Prince Valdemar of Denmark (born 1858)
• 12 February – S. P. L. Sørensen, chemist (born 1868)
• 26 March – Peter Hertz, art historian (born 1874)

April–June

• 7 April – Mary Steen, photographer (born 1856)
• 24 April – Harald Scavenius, diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1920–22 (born 1873)
• 4 June – Carl Cohn Haste, blind pianist, organist and composer, music teacher at the Royal Blind Institute, first president of the Danish Association of the Blind (born 1874)

July–September

• 3 August – August Enna, composer (born 1859) ^[3]
• 4 August – Aage Giødesen, painter (born 1863)

October–December

• 4 October – Jens Lind, apothecary, botanist and mycologist (born 1874)
• 16 October – Ludolf Nielsen, composer, violinist, conductor and pianist (born 1876) ^[4]
• 20 December – Fritz Syberg, artist and illustrator (born 1862)

References

1. "Christian X: king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
2. "Sidste dag på Kirurgisk Akademi". Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen (in Danish). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
3. "PROF. AUGUST ENNA, DANISH COMPOSER, 80; Rose From Shoemaker to Write Operas and Ballets". New York Times. 4 August 1939. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
4. Paul Griffiths (2004). The Penguin Companion to Classical Music. Penguin Adult. ISBN   9780141009247.