1939 in Denmark
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{{Year in Denmark|1939}}
Events from the year 1939 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
- 29 November {{ndash}} Erling Dahl-Iversen gives the last lecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Surgery on Bredgade in Copenhagen.{{cite web|url=https://ugeskriftet.dk/nyhed/sidste-dag-pa-kirurgisk-akademi|title=Sidste dag på Kirurgisk Akademi|language=Danish|website=Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen|access-date=27 August 2023}}
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Sport
=Badminton=
- 12 March – Tage Madsen wins gold in Men's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships.
=Cycling=
- Karel Kaers (BEL) and Omer De Bruycker (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
=Football=
- 5 March – Næstved Boldklub is founded.
- B 93 wins their seventh Danish football championship by winning the 1938–39 Danish Championship League.
Births
- 17 January – Niels Helveg Petersen, politician (died 2017)
- 22 January – Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (d. 1996)
- 1 February – Dario Campeotto, performer (died 2023)
- 13 July – John Danielsen, Danish football midfielder
- 2 November {{ndash}} Svend Åge Madsen, novelist
- 8 November {{ndash}} Henning Christophersen, politician and EU commissioner (died 2016)
- 15 November {{ndash}} Erik Hansen, canoeist (died 2014)
Deaths
=January{{ndash}}March=
- 14 January – Prince Valdemar of Denmark (born 1858)
- 12 February {{ndash}} S. P. L. Sørensen, chemist (born 1868)
- 26 March – Peter Hertz, art historian (born 1874)
=April{{ndash}}June=
- 7 April – Mary Steen, photographer (born 1856)
- 24 April – Harald Scavenius, diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1920–22 (born 1873)
- 4 June – Carl Cohn Haste, blind pianist, organist and composer, music teacher at the Royal Blind Institute, first president of the Danish Association of the Blind (born 1874)
=July{{ndash}}September=
- 3 August – August Enna, composer (born 1859)
- 4 August {{ndash}} Aage Giødesen, painter (born 1863)
=October{{ndash}}December=
- 4 October – Jens Lind, apothecary, botanist and mycologist (born 1874)
- 16 October – Ludolf Nielsen, composer, violinist, conductor and pianist (born 1876)
- 20 December – Fritz Syberg, artist and illustrator (born 1862)
References
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