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1960 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1960 in Denmark.

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Frederik IX
  • Prime minister – H. C. Hansen (until 19 February), Viggo Kampmann

Events

Sports

Badminton

  • 1923 March All England Badminton Championships
    • Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Single
    • Erland Kops and Poul-Erik Nielsen win gold in Men's Doubles
    • Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold medal in Mixed Doubles.

Date unknown

  • Emile Severeyns (BEL) and Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

January{{ndash}}March

  • 14 January – Per Fly, film director

April{{ndash}}June

  • 15 April – Susanne Bier, film director
  • 11 May Jesper Asholt, actor

July{{ndash}}September

  • 6 July Liselotte Plesner, civil servant and ambasador
  • 8 July – Susanne Nielsson, breaststroke swimmer
  • 3 August – Kim Milton Nielsen, football referee
  • 10 August Lone Gram, microbiologist
  • 19 August Morten Andersen, American-football player
  • 24 August – Kim Christofte, footballer
  • 15 September Connie Hedegaard, politician and public intellectual

October{{ndash}}December

  • 29 October – Jens Winther, jazz trumpeter (died 2011)
  • 2 December – Anders Hejlsberg, software engineer

Deaths

January{{ndash}}March

  • 21 January – Launy Grøndahl, composer and conductor (born 1886)
  • 27 January – Gudmund Hatt, archaeologist and cultural geographer (born 1884)
  • 19 February – H. C. Hansen, politician and Prime Minister 1955–60 (born 1906)
  • 27 March – Holger Jacobsen, architect (born 1876)

April{{ndash}}June

  • 18 April – C. L. David, lawyer, art collector and philanthropist (born 1878)
  • 24 June – Harald Moltke, nobleman, painter and author (born 1871)

July{{ndash}}September

  • 27 July Julie Vinter Hansen, astronomer (born 1890)
  • 16 August – Christine Swane, painter associated with the "Funen Painters" (born 1876)
  • 26 August – Knud Enemark Jensen, racing cyclist (born 1936)
  • 1 September – Knud Heglund, actor (born 1894)

October{{ndash}}December

  • 11 December – Svend Rindom, screenwriter and actor (born 1884)
  • 12 December – Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen, sculptor and ceramist, model master of Bing & Grøndahl 1897–1917, artistic director of Norden 1917–1925 (born 1874)
  • 13 December – Malvina Mehrn, animal rights activist (born 1862).
  • 22 December – Sophus Black, telegraph manager and art collector (born 1882)

References

References

  1. "Frederick IX {{!}} king of Denmark".
  2. "Det Danske Akademi". Gyldendal.
  3. Vammen, Tinne. "Malvina Mehrn". Dansk Nationalleksikon.
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