1957 in Denmark
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{{Year in Denmark|1957}}
Events from the year 1957 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
- 3 March - Denmark places third in Eurovision Song Contest
Sports
=Badminton=
- 20{{ndash}}25 March {{ndash}} All England Badminton Championships
- Anni Hammergaard Hansen and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Women's Doubles
- Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Mixed Doubles.
=Football=
- 28 April {{ndash}} AGF wins the 1956–57 Danish Cup by defeating Esbjerg fB 2{{ndash}}0 in the final.
=Date unknown=
- Fritz Pfenninger (SUI) and Jean Roth (SUI) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Births
=January{{ndash}}March=
- 31 January – Henrik Dam Kristensen, politician
- 17 February {{ndash}} Lars Brygmann, actor
- 30 March – Stig L. Andersson, landscape architect
= April{{ndash}}June =
- 6 April – Jesper Bank, sailor
- 28 April – Tøger Seidenfaden, journalist, editor-in-chief of Politiken (died 2011)
- 9 May – Kristian Levring, film director
- 17 May – Peter Høeg, writer of fiction
=July{{ndash}}September=
- 11 September – Preben Elkjær, footballer
- 5 October – Jakob Nielsen, computer scientist
- 20 November – John Eriksen, John Eriksen (died 2002)
- 13 December – Lars Schwander, photographer, gallerist
Deaths
=January{{ndash}}March=
- 2 January – Søren Absalon Larsen, physicist active in the field of electroacoustics; the Larsen effect was named after him (born 1871)
=April{{ndash}}June=
- 14 April – Thorvald Madsen, physician and bacteriologist (born 1870)
- 18 April – Jens Laursøn Emborg, organist and composer (born 1876)
- 6 May – Ebbe Kornerup, writer and painter (born 1874)
- 9 May – Inger Margrethe Boberg, folklore researcher and writer (born 1900){{Cite web|url=http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/170/origin/170/|title=Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Inger Boberg|date=2003-05-15|website=kvinfo.dk|access-date=2017-10-22|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050237/http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/170/origin/170/|url-status=live}}
- 14 May – Thit Jensen, novelist and author of short stories, plays and society critical articles (born 1876)
- 21 May – Jens Søndergaard, painter (born 1895)
- 26 May {{ndash}} Peter Bang, engineer (born 1900)
- 9 June – Aksel Jørgensen, painter and wood engraver (born 1883)
- 17 June – Olaf Rude, painter (born 1886)
=July{{ndash}}September=
- 5 July – Magdalene Lauridsen, educator (born 1873)
- 28 August – Erik Tuxen, conductor, composer and arranger (born 1902)
- 2 September – Peter Freuchen, explorer, writer and traveller (born 1886)
=Date unknown=
- Axel Andersen Byrval, amateur football player and manager, national football team manager 1913–15 and 1917–18 (born 1875)
See also
References
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