1947 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X, Frederik IX
• Prime minister – Knud Kristensen, Hans Hedtoft

Events

• 20 April – King Christian X dies, and is succeeded on the throne by his elder son, King Frederik IX.
• 13 November – Prime Minister Knud Kristensen resigns following a motion of no confidence, and is replaced by Hans Hedtoft.

Sports

Football

• Ab wins 1946–47 Danish 1st Division. It is their sixth Danish football championship.

Swimming

• 1014 September Denmark wins five gold medals and one bronze medal at the 1947 European Aquatics Championships.

Other

• 29 June The Round Zealand sailing race takes place for the first time.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 23 February Pia Kjærsgaard, politician

AprilJune

• 29 April – Jacob Holdt, photographer
• 30 April Birthe Neumann, actor

JulySeptember

• 12 July Anne Marie Løn, author
• 16 July Anders Koppel, musician
• 4 September Claus Hjort Frederiksen, politician
• 27 September Jesper Tørring, athlete

OctoberDecember

• 27 December Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, businessman and investor

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 4 January Hanna Adler, educator
• 10 January – August Blom, film director, production leader and pioneer of silent films
• 15 January – Georg Carl Amdrup, admiral, polar explorer
• 13 March – Gerda Christophersen, actress and director

AprilJune

• 20 April – Christian X, King of Denmark
• 29 April – Ove Paulsen, botanist, professor at the Pharmaceutical College in Copenhagen 1920–1947
• 4 May Cathrine Horsbøl, furnituremaker
• 3 June Sigurd Wandel, painter
• 18 June – Ejnar Martin Kjær, teacher and politician
• 25 June – Oluf Olsson, gymnast, silver medallist at the 1906 Intercalated Games, bronze medallist at the 1912 Summer Olympics
• 2 August Sonja Hauberg, writer