1952 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX
• Prime minister – Erik Eriksen

Sports

Badminton

• 711 March All England Badminton Championships
• * Tonny Ahm wins gold in Women's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships.
• * Tonny Ahm and Aase Schiøtt Jacobsen wins gold in Women's Doubles
• * Poul Holm and Tonny Ahm win gold in Mixed Doubles

Cycling

• Date unknown Lucien Gillen and Kay Werner Nielsen win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 15 February Jens Jørn Bertelsen, footballer
• 29 February – Orla Østerby, politician
• 19 March – Ole Rasmussen, footballer

AprilJune

• 3 April – Orla Hav, politician
• 4 April – Villy Søvndal, politician
• 27 April – Ole Svendsen, welterweight boxer
• 29 May – Pia Tafdrup, writer and poet
• 11 June – Anne Birgitte Lundholt, politician and businessperson
• 19 June – Poul Nesgaard, television personality, director of the National Film School of Denmark

JulySeptember

• 8 July Knud Arne Jürgensen, music historian
• 24 July Carsten Jensen, author
• 14 August – Jeanette Oppenheim, lawyer and politician
• 21 September Jens Nørskov, physicist

OctoberDecember

• 17 October Thomas Rørdam, lawyer, judge
• 15 December – Allan Simonsen, footballer, 1977 European Footballer of the Year
• 23 December – Hans Abrahamsen, composer

Deaths

• 18 April – Agnes Smidt, painter and cultural activist
• 22 May – Liva Weel, actress
• 4 June – Rasmus Harboe, sculptor
• 10 July – Rued Langgaard, composer and organist
• 7 November – Christian Nielsen, sailor, silver medallist at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Date unknown

• August Hesselbo, pharmaceutical botanist and bryologist