1952 in Denmark

← 1951 1950 1949 1952 in Denmark → 1953 1954 1955
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1952 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1952 in Denmark .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX ^[1]
• Prime minister – Erik Eriksen

Events

Main article: 1952

Sports

Badminton

• 7–11 March – All England Badminton Championships
  • Tonny Ahm wins gold in Women's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships.
  • Tonny Ahm and Aase Schiøtt Jacobsen wins gold in Women's Doubles
  • Poul Holm and Tonny Ahm win gold in Mixed Doubles

Cycling

• Date unknown – Lucien Gillen (LUX) and Kay Werner Nielsen (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

January–March

• 15 February – Jens Jørn Bertelsen, footballer
• 29 February – Orla Østerby, politician
• 19 March – Ole Rasmussen, footballer

April–June

• 3 April – Orla Hav, politician
• 4 April – Villy Søvndal, politician
• 27 April – Ole Svendsen, welterweight boxer
• 29 May – Pia Tafdrup, writer and poet
• 11 June – Anne Birgitte Lundholt, politician and businessperson
• 19 June – Poul Nesgaard, television personality, director of the National Film School of Denmark

July–September

• 8 July – Knud Arne Jürgensen, music historian
• 24 July – Carsten Jensen, author
• 14 August – Jeanette Oppenheim, lawyer and politician
• 21 September – Jens Nørskov, physicist

October–December

• 17 October – Thomas Rørdam, lawyer, judge
• 15 December – Allan Simonsen, footballer, 1977 European Footballer of the Year
• 23 December – Hans Abrahamsen, composer

Deaths

• 18 April – Agnes Smidt, painter and cultural activist (born 1874)
• 22 May – Liva Weel, actress (born 1897)
• 4 June – Rasmus Harboe, sculptor (born 1868)
• 10 July – Rued Langgaard, composer and organist (born 1893)
• 7 November – Christian Nielsen, sailor, silver medallist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (born 1873)

Date unknown

• August Hesselbo, pharmaceutical botanist and bryologist (born 1874)

References

1. "Frederick IX: king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 June 2019.