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

• Karel Kaers and Omer De Bruycker win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

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