1909 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VIII
• Prime minister – Niels Neergaard, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Carl Theodor Zahle

Events

• 20 April – Women are given the right to vote in municipal elections. General women's suffrage is not introduced in Denmark until 1915.

Sports

• 9 June Skovshoved IF is founded.

Cycling

• 14–23 August The 1909 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are held in Copenhagen.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 3 January – Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, conductor and pianist
• 7 February – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter
• 22 February – Vermund Larsen, businessman, company founder

AprilJune

• 9 May Hilde Levi, physicist
• 25 June Marguerite Viby, actress

JulySeptember

• 5 July Aagot Lading, educator

OctoberDecember

• 20 August – Martin A. Hansen, writer
• 20 December – Vagn Holmboe, composer

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 13 February
• * Hugo Egmont Hørring, politician, prime minister of Denmark
• * Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, lawyer

AprilJune

• 7 May – Joachim Andersen, flutist, conductor and composer

JulySeptember

• 9 July – Johannes Forchhammer, philologist
• 19 July – Leopold Rosenfeld, composer
• 27 August Emil Christian Hansen, chemist
• 25 September – Thomas Skat Rørdam, theologian and bishop

OctoberDecember

• 13 October – Janus la Cour, painter
• 21 November – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-born painter
• 4 December – Princess Marie of Orléans, wife of Prince Valdemar
• 29/30 December – Carl Emil Krarup, telegraph engineer, mainly known for the invention of the Krarup cable, a kind of loaded cable