1917 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Carl Theodor Zahle

Events

Undated

• Sovereignty of the Danish West Indies was officially transferred from Denmark to the United States, after the Treaty of the Danish West Indies was ratified.

Sports

• 26 April Silkeborg IF is founded.

Date unknown

• Kjøbenhavns Boldklub wins the 1916–17 Danish National Football Tournament by defeating Akademisk Boldklub 62 in the final.

Births

• 14 June – Lise Nørgaard, writer
• 18 June – Erik Ortvad, painter and illustrator
• 4 October Søren Georg Jensen, designer and sculptor
• 28 October Wermund Bendtsen, photographer
• 27 November – Arne Sørensen, footballer

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 4 January Carl Ludwig Jessen, painter
• 30 January Gerhard Faye, factory manager
• 26 February Hanna Hoffmann, sculptor and silversmith

AprilJune

• 5 May - Hans Smidth, painter
• 14 June – Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, politician
• 22 June Kristian Zahrtmann, painter

JulySeptember

• 14 July Anders Thiset, archivist
• 30 August Otto Haslund, painter

OctoberDecember

• 27 November Christian Christiansen, physicist
• 21 December Peter Gottfred Ramm, military officer, landowner and company founder