1960 in Denmark

← 1959 1958 1957 1960 in Denmark → 1961 1962 1963
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	Other events of 1960 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1960 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX ^[1]
• 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. ^[2]

Sports

Badminton

• 19–23 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

January–March

• 14 January – Per Fly, film director

April–June

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

July–September

• 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

October–December

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

Deaths

January–March

• 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)

April–June

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

July–September

• 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)

October–December

• 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). ^[3]
• 22 December – Sophus Black, telegraph manager and art collector (born 1882)

See also

• 1960 in Danish television

References

1. "Frederick IX | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
2. "Det Danske Akademi" (in Danish). Gyldendal. Retrieved 4 September 2011.
3. Vammen, Tinne. "Malvina Mehrn". Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon (in Danish). Dansk Nationalleksikon. Retrieved 18 July 2025.