1960 in Denmark
Events from the year 1960 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Frederik IX
- Prime minister – H. C. Hansen, Viggo Kampmann
Events
- 15 November – The 1960 parliamentary election is held.
- 28 November – The Danish Academy is founded.
Sports
Badminton
- 1923 March All England Badminton Championships
- * Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Single
- * Erland Kops and Poul-Erik Nielsen win gold in Men's Doubles
- * Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold medal in Mixed Doubles.
Date unknown
Births
JanuaryMarch
- 14 January – Per Fly, film director
AprilJune
- 15 April – Susanne Bier, film director
- 11 May Jesper Asholt, actor
JulySeptember
- 6 July Liselotte Plesner, civil servant and ambasador
- 8 July – Susanne Nielsson, breaststroke swimmer
- 3 August – Kim Milton Nielsen, football referee
- 10 August Lone Gram, microbiologist
- 19 August Morten Andersen, American-football player
- 24 August – Kim Christofte, footballer
- 15 September Connie Hedegaard, politician and public intellectual
OctoberDecember
Deaths
JanuaryMarch
- 21 January – Launy Grøndahl, composer and conductor
- 27 January – Gudmund Hatt, archaeologist and cultural geographer
- 19 February – H. C. Hansen, politician and Prime Minister 1955–60
- 27 March – Holger Jacobsen, architect
AprilJune
- 18 April – C. L. David, lawyer, art collector and philanthropist
- 24 June – Harald Moltke, nobleman, painter and author
JulySeptember
- 27 July Julie Vinter Hansen, astronomer
- 16 August – Christine Swane, painter associated with the "Funen Painters"
- 26 August – Knud Enemark Jensen, racing cyclist
- 1 September – Knud Heglund, actor
OctoberDecember
- 11 December – Svend Rindom, screenwriter and actor
- 12 December – Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen, sculptor and ceramist, model master of Bing & Grøndahl 1897–1917, artistic director of Norden 1917–1925
- 13 December – Malvina Mehrn, animal rights activist.
- 22 December – Sophus Black, telegraph manager and art collector