1955 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX
• Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft, H. C. Hansen

Sports

Badminton

• 2326 March All England Badminton Championships
• * Finn Kobberø and Jørgen Hammergaard Hansen win gold in Men's Doubles
• * Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Mixed Doubles

Football

• 9 June AGF wins the 1954–55 Danish Cup by defeating Aalborg Chang 40 in the final.

Date unknown

• Evan Klamer and Kay Werner Nielsen win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 1 January – Ole Beich, musician

AprilJun

• 14 May Jan Sørensen, footballer
• 20 June – Tor Nørretranders, writer

JulySeptember

• 11 July Søren Sætter-Lassen, actor
• 31 July – Lars Bastrup, footballer
• 26 August
• *Heidi Ryom, dancer
• * Monica Ritterband, artist and journalist

OctoberDecember

• 16 October Søren Pilmark, actor
• 15 November Michael Kvium, painter
• 30 December – Sanne Salomonsen, singer

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 26 January Holger Nielsenm fencer
• 17 February Johannes Bjerg, sculptor
• 17 March – Gunnar Asgeir Sadolin, businessman

AprilJune

• 27 June – Martin A. Hansen, writer

JulySeptember

• 15 July – Einar Utzon-Frank, sculptor
• 31 July Sophy A. Christensen, furnituremaker
• 24 September – Jonathan Leunbach, doctor

OctoberDecember

• 12 December – Esther Carstensen, women's rights activist and journal editor