1931 in Denmark
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{{Year in Denmark|1931}}
Events from the year 1931 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
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- 31 August – Karen Blixen returns to Denmark after living 28 years in Kenya, settling at her native Rungstedlund.{{Cite web|url=http://www.karen-blixen.dk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=60&lang=da|title=Karen Blixen i Afrika|publisher=Karen Blixen Museet|access-date=2009-11-18|archive-date=19 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719125009/http://www.karen-blixen.dk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=60&lang=da|url-status=dead}}
The arts
=Music=
- 14 August – Premiere performance of Carl Nielsen's Commotio, the composer's last major work, in Aarhus Cathedral.
Sports
=Cycling=
- 21–30 August {{ndash}} The 1931 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are held in Copenhagen
- Willy Hansen wins gold in men's sprint.
- Helger Harder, Willy Gervin and Anker Meyer-Andersen win gold, silver and bronze in men's sprint at the Amateur event.
- 26 August {{ndash}} Henry Hansen wins gold in Amateur Road Race at the 1931 UCI Road World Championships.
=Football=
- Frem wins their second Danish football championship by winning the 1930–31 Danish Championship League.
- 4 August {{ndash}} Holbæk B&I is founded.
Births
- 7 July – Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt, film director and screenwriter (died 2018)
- 15 December – Klaus Rifbjerg, writer (died 2015)
Deaths
=January{{ndash}}March=
- 16 January – Carl Hansen Ostenfeld, botanist (born 1873)
- 18 February – Peter Elfelt, photographer (born 1866)
=April{{ndash}}June=
- 15 April – Knud V. Engelhardt, industrial designer (born 1882)
- 4 May – Christian Klengenberg, whaler, trapper and trader (born 1869)
- 7 June – Arnold Krog, designer (born 1856)
- 17 June {{ndash}} Holger F. Struer, chemist and company founder (born 1846)
=July{{ndash}}September=
- 8 August – Einar Hein, landscape painter associated with the "Skagen Painters" (born 1875)
- 23 September – Asger Skovgaard Ostenfeld, engineer (born 1866)
=October{{ndash}}December=
- 3 October – Carl Nielsen, composer (born 1865)
- 20 December – Edvard Brandes, politician, author and editor (born 1847)
References
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