1955 in Denmark
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{{Year in Denmark|1955}}
Events from the year 1955 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
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Sports
=Badminton=
- 23{{ndash}}26 March {{ndash}} 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 {{ndash}} AGF wins the 1954–55 Danish Cup by defeating Aalborg Chang 4{{ndash}}0 in the final.
=Date unknown=
- Evan Klamer (DEN) and Kay Werner Nielsen (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Births
=January{{ndash}}March=
- 1 January – Ole Beich, musician
=April{{ndash}}Jun=
- 14 May {{ndash}} Jan Sørensen, footballer (died 2024)
- 20 June – Tor Nørretranders, writer
=July{{ndash}}September=
- 11 July {{ndash}} Søren Sætter-Lassen, actor
- 31 July – Lars Bastrup, footballer
- 26 August
- Heidi Ryom, dancer (died 2013){{cite encyclopedia|last1=Craine|first1=Debra|last2=Mackrell|first2=Judith|title=Ryom, Heidi|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199563449.001.0001/acref-9780199563449-e-2046|encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of Dance|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=Second|date=2010|isbn=978-0-19-956344-9|access-date=4 December 2021|url-access=subscription}}{{cite encyclopedia|last=Christensen|first=Anne Middelboe|title=Heidi Ryom|url=https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Heidi_Ryom|encyclopedia=Den Store Danske Encyklopædi|language=da|date=7 May 2020|access-date=4 December 2021}}
- Monica Ritterband, artist and journalist
=October{{ndash}}December=
- 16 October {{ndash}} Søren Pilmark, actor
- 15 November {{ndash}} Michael Kvium, painter
- 30 December – Sanne Salomonsen, singer
Deaths
=January{{ndash}}March=
- 26 January {{ndash}} Holger Nielsenm fencer (born 1866)
- 17 February {{ndash}} Johannes Bjerg, sculptor (born 1886)
- 17 March – Gunnar Asgeir Sadolin, businessman (born 1874)
=April{{ndash}}June=
- 27 June – Martin A. Hansen, writer (born 1909)
=July{{ndash}}September=
- 15 July – Einar Utzon-Frank, sculptor (born 1888)
- 31 July {{ndash}} Sophy A. Christensen, furnituremaker (born 1867)
- 24 September – Jonathan Leunbach, doctor (born 1884)
=October{{ndash}}December=
- 12 December – Esther Carstensen, women's rights activist and journal editor (born 1873){{cite web |title=Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Esther Carstensen |url=https://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/593/origin/170/ |website=www.kvinfo.dk |access-date=28 November 2019 |date=15 May 2003}}
See also
References
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