1948 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX
• Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft

Sports

Badminton

• 36 March 1948 All England Badminton Championships
• * Jørn Skaarup wins gold in Men's Single
• * Kirsten Thorndahl wins gold in Women's Single
• * Preben Dabelsteen and Børge Frederiksen win gold in Men's Double
• * Tonny Ahm and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Women's Double* Jørn Skaarup and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Mixed Double
• 22 April – Hvidovre Badminton Club is founded.

Football

• KB wins the 1947–48 Danish 1st Division. It is their ninth Danish football championship.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 27 January – Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, philologist and gender studies scholar
• 12 March – Ole Thestrup, actor

AprilJune

• 2 April – Roald Als, cartoonist and writer
• 16 May – Jesper Christensen, actor

JulySeptember

• 3 July Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, business executive
• 16 August Lars Larsen, businessman, company founder

OctoberDecember

• 8 October – Hans Engell, journalist, politician minister of justice
• 22 October – Bo Holten, composer and conductor
• 25 October Suste Bonnén, photographer
• 9 November – Bille August, Oscar-winning film director
• 7 December – Mads Vinding, jazz bassist

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 28 January – Peter Rochegune Munch, historian and politician, served in three governments between 1909 and 1940
• 7 February – Carl Andreas Koefoed, agronomist
• 27 February Svend Hammershøi, painter and ceramist
• 24 March – Vilhelm Arnesen, painter

AprilJune

• 13 April – John Christmas Møller, politician, foreign minister
• 24 May – Adolph Jensen, economist and statistician

JulySeptember

• 21 August – Ole Falkentorp, architect
• 13 September – Henning Haslund-Christensen, travel writer and anthropologist

OctoberDecember

• 4 October – Camillo Carlsen, composer
• 5 November Ingeborg Appel, educator
• 1 December – Herman Vedel, painter and portraitist