1759 in Denmark

• Monarch – Frederick V{{cite web|title=Frederick V: king of Denmark and Norway|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-V-king-of-Denmark-and-Norway|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=18 November 2019|language=en}}
• Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

Undated

• Construction of Christian's Church, Copenhagen is completed.
• The settlement of Aasiaat is founded as Egedesminde in Greenland.
• The village of Havredal is founded.

• 15 January – Jørgen Mandix, judge (died 1835){{cite encyclopedia|year=1897|title=Mandix, Jørgen|first=Yngvar|last=Nielsen|author-link=Yngvar Nielsen|encyclopedia=Dansk biografisk Lexikon|volume=XI|editor1-link=Carl Frederik Bricka|editor-last=Bricka|editor-first=Carl Frederik|publisher=Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag|location=Copenhagen|url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/11/0091.html|page=89|language=da|access-date=25 October 2016}}
• 14 July {{ndash}} Frederik Gottschalk von Haxthausen, Danish military officer and Norway's first minister of finance (died 1825)
• 19 July – Christopher Friedenreich Hage, merchant (died 1849)
• 5 April {{ndash}} Erik Viborg, veterinarian and botanist (died 1822)
• 11 December {{ndash}} Johan David Vogel, businessman and brewer (died 1728)

• 4 April {{ndash}} Christoffer Foltmar, painter and organist (born 1718)
• 9 May – Johan Friederich Wewer, merchant (born 1699)
• 5 September – Lauritz de Thurah, architect (born 1706)
• 6 October {{ndash}} Johann Gottfried Burman Becker, pharmacist, writer and illustrator (died 1860)
• 29 October – Anne Dorthe Lund, actress (date of birth unknown)

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