Events from the year 1936 in Denmark.

Incumbents Monarch – Christian X Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Events 1–16 August – Denmark participates in the 1936 Summer Olympics and wins five medals. 22 September – The 1936 Landsting elections are held.

Undated The political party Danish Unity is established. The Viborg Handball Club is established.

Sports

Cycling Albert Billiet (BEL) and Werner Grundahl Hansen (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race. Jan Pijnenburg (NED) and Frans Slaats (NED) and win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Football Frem wins their fourth Danish football championship by winning the 1935–36 Danish Championship League.

Births

JanuaryMarch 13 March – Finn Kobberø, badminton player (d. 2009) 19 March – Birthe Wilke, singer 29 March – Mogens Camre, politician (d. 2016)

AprilJune 28 April – John Tchicai, jazz musician and composer (d. 2012) 30 June – Flemming Flindt, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)

JulySeptember 10 August – Malene Schwartz, actress 17 September – Jan Gehl, architect, urban planner

OctoberDecember 1 November – Mimi Heinrich, actress and writer (d. 2017) 30 November – Knud Enemark Jensen, racing cyclist (d. 1960) 7 December – Annette Stroyberg, actress (d. 2005)

Deaths JanuaryMarch 3 February Heinrich Wenck, architect (born 1851) 4 February Wilhelm Hansen, businessman and art collector (born 1868) 22 January – Louis Glass, composer (b. 1864) 22 February – Johan Skjoldborg, novelist, playwright and memoirist (b. 1861)

AprilJune 23 April – Thomas Bærentzen, sculptor (b. 1869)

JulySeptember 3 August – Carl William Hansen, author, Luciferian, wandering bishop and occultist (b. 1872) 2 September Niels Neergaard, politician (born 1854) 27 September Hans Peter Prior, industrialist (born 1866)

OctoberDecember 9 October – Carl Christensen, Denmark's last executioner (b. 1869) 22 October – Hedevig Quiding, singer and music critic (b. 1867) 24 November – J. A. D. Jensen, naval officer and Arctic explorer (b. 1849) 13 December Harald Ludvig Westergaard, economist, statician (born 1853)

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