1908 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VIII
• Prime minister – J. C. Christensen, Niels Neergaard

Events

• 14 June - Gefion Fountain inaugurated at Langelinie in Copenhagen.
• 23 August The Denmark expedition returns to Copenhagen.
• 8 September - Former Minister of Justice Peter Adler Alberti turns himself in to the police for embezzlement of DKK 18 million.
• 19 September - Det Ny Teater opens in Copenhagen as the second largest theatre in the country.
• 20 October - Skagen Museum is founded in the dining room at Brøndums Hotel in Skagen with the ambition to collect works by the Skagen Painters and raise funds for the construction of a building for their exhibition.

Undated

• Labour shortage begin to occur and the emigration to the United States almost stops.

Sports

• 24 May Boldklubben 1908 is founded.
• 24 August Thorvald Ellegaard wins gold in men's sprint at the 1908 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 30 January Astrid Noack, sculptor
• 31 March - Karl Skytte, politician

AprilJune

• 12 May - Gunnar Strømvad, actor
• 31 May - Sigfred Johansen, actor

JulySeptember

• 7 July Ellen Andersen, textile artist

OctoberDecember

• 1 October - Herman David Koppel, composer
• 6 October - Bjarne Henning-Jensen, film director
• 17 October Svend Olsen, weightlifter
• 22 October - Ole Monty, actor
• 23 October - Urban Hansen, politician, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 14 January – Holger Drachmann, poet, painter
• 3 February – Ferdinand Meldahl, architect
• 20 March – Frants Henningsen, painter

JulySeptember

• 27 August – Thorvald Bindesbøll, architect, designer

OctoberDecember

• 20 October – Emil Blichfeldt, architect
• 26 October – Lorenz Frølich, painter and graphic artist
• 1 November – Christian Conrad Sophus Danneskiold-Samsøe, landowner and theatre director
• 8 November – Heinrich Hirschsprung, lawyer, businessman and patron