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1939 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1939 in Denmark.

Incumbents

Monarch – Christian X
Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Events

29 November Erling Dahl-Iversen gives the last lecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Surgery on Bredgade in Copenhagen.

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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)
27 March Per Golst, film director and producer (died 2025)
13 July – John Danielsen, Danish football midfielder
2 November Svend Åge Madsen, novelist
8 November Henning Christophersen, politician and EU commissioner (died 2016)
15 November Erik Hansen, canoeist (died 2014)

Deaths

January{{ndash}}March

14 January – Prince Valdemar of Denmark (born 1858)
12 February 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 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

"Christian X: king of Denmark".
"Sidste dag på Kirurgisk Akademi".
(4 August 1939). "PROF. AUGUST ENNA, DANISH COMPOSER, 80; Rose From Shoemaker to Write Operas and Ballets".
Paul Griffiths. (2004). "The Penguin Companion to Classical Music". Penguin Adult.

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