1949 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX
• Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft

Events

• 30 March – Prince Harald, uncle of King Frederik IX, dies in Copenhagen at age 72, following two years of illness.

Sport

Badminton

• 5 March Tonny Ahm wins gold in Women's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships.

Cycling

• 2228 August The 1949 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are held in Copenhagen.
• * Knud Andersen wins gold in Men's individual pursuit.

Football

• KB wins the 1948–49 Danish 1st Division. It is their 10th Danish football championship.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 4 January Torben Hardenberg, goldsmith
• 27 January – Per Røntved, footballer
• 27 March – Poul Ruders, composer

AprilJune

• 22 April – Per Bak Jensen, photographer

JulySeptember

• 14 August – Morten Olsen, football player
• 14 September – Tommy Seebach, singer, composer, and keyboardist

OctoberDecember

• 5 October – Thomas Clausen, jazz pianist
• 11 December – Peter Brixtofte, politician
• 19 December – Sebastian, singer, guitarist and composer

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 3 February Harald Simonsen, businessman
• 6 March – Robert Storm Petersen, cartoonist, painter, inventor, writer
• 30 March – Prince Harald, royal, army officer

AprilJune

• 27 May – Martin Knudsen, physicist and researcher after whom the Knudsen gas state, the Knudsen number, and the Knudsen layer are named
• 28 June – Laurits Larsen, Olympic sport shooter and bronze medalist

JulySeptember

• 13 September – August Krogh, professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen 1916–1945, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1920
• 28 September – Nancy Dalberg, composer

OctoberDecember

• 7 November Ville Jais Nielsen, painter and sculptor
• 12 November - Christian Schmiegelow, businessman
• 22 December Svend Olufsen, engineer and company founder