1954 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX
• Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft

Sports

Date unknown

• Lucien Gillen and Ferdinando Terruzzi win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 16 January Morten P. Meldal, chemist
• 29 January Niels Eje, music composer and oboist

AprilJune

• 15 June
• * Dan Laustsen, cinematographer
• * Uffe Elbæk, politician

JulySeptember

• 27 July Rose Marie Tillisch, actress
• 12 September Ole Sohn, politician and writer

OctoberDecember

• 10 October Lars Rebien Sørensen, business executive
• 10 November Hans Kjeld Rasmussen, sports shooter
• 14 December Ib Andersen, ballet dancer, choreographer, and painter.

Deaths

AprilJune

• 1 June – Martin Andersen Nexø, socialist, later communist, writer

JulySeptember

• 8 July – Sigurd Langberg, actor
• 29 August Thyra Manicus-Hansen, ceramist

OctoberDecember

• 6 October – Hakon Børresen, composer
• 8 October – Morten Korch, writer of populist stories and romances
• 11 November – Johannes Giersing, chess master
• 18 December Vilhelm Buhl, politician
• 26 December Astrid Noack, sculptor