Events from the year 1976 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Margrethe II Prime minister – Anker Jørgensen
Events
Sports 6–7 April – With two gold medals and three silver medals, Denmark finishes as the second best nation at the 5th European Badminton Championships in Dublin, Ireland.
Date unknown Graeme Gilmore (AUS) and Dieter Kemper (FRG) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Births
JanuaryMarch 2 February Gudrun Bojesen ballet dancer 6 February Kasper Hvidt, handballer 10 March Johan Wohlert, musician
AprilJune 25 April – Kenneth Cortsen, sport management researcher 26 June – Janus Friis, entrepreneur, co-founder of skype
JulySeptember 28 July – Rasmus Bjerg, actor, comedian 1 August Søren Galatius, mathematician 29 August – Jon Dahl Tomasson, footballer 1 September Heidi Albertsen, model
OctoberDecember 13 October – Cathrine Grage, speed skater, inline skater, and cyclist 2 November Andreas Mogensen, astronaut 14 December – Peter Gade, badminton player
Deaths
January–march 19 February Henrik Sørensen, writer (born 1897) 7 march – Tove Ditlevsen, poet and author (born 1917)
AprilJune 17 April – Henrik Dam, biochemist and physiologist (born 1895) 12 May – Kaj Gottlob, architect (born 1887) 3 June – Viggo Kampmann, politician, former prime minister (born 1910)
JulySeptember 21 September Nils Middelboe, football player (born 1887) 30 September Aage Fønss, opera singer (born 1887)
OctoberDecember
29 December Ingeborg Frederiksen, illustrator (born 1886)
See also 1976 in Danish television
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