1939 in Denmark
Events from the year 1939 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian X
- Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning
Events
- 29 November Erling Dahl-Iversen gives the last lecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Surgery on Bredgade in Copenhagen.
Sport
Badminton
- 12 March – Tage Madsen wins gold in Men's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships.
Cycling
Football
- 5 March – Næstved Boldklub is founded.
- B 93 wins their seventh Danish football championship by winning the 1938–39 Danish Championship League.
Births
- 17 January – Niels Helveg Petersen, politician
- 22 January – Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral
- 1 February – Dario Campeotto, performer
- 27 March Per Golst, film director and producer
- 13 July – John Danielsen, Danish football midfielder
- 2 November Svend Åge Madsen, novelist
- 8 November Henning Christophersen, politician and EU commissioner
- 15 November Erik Hansen, canoeist
Deaths
JanuaryMarch
- 14 January – Prince Valdemar of Denmark
- 12 February S. P. L. Sørensen, chemist
- 26 March – Peter Hertz, art historian
AprilJune
- 7 April – Mary Steen, photographer
- 24 April – Harald Scavenius, diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1920–22
- 4 June – Carl Cohn Haste, blind pianist, organist and composer, music teacher at the Royal Blind Institute, first president of the Danish Association of the Blind
JulySeptember
- 3 August – August Enna, composer
- 4 August Aage Giødesen, painter
OctoberDecember
- 4 October – Jens Lind, apothecary, botanist and mycologist
- 16 October – Ludolf Nielsen, composer, violinist, conductor and pianist
- 20 December – Fritz Syberg, artist and illustrator