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.
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
JanuaryMarch 17 January – Niels Helveg Petersen, politician (died 2017) 22 January – Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (d. 1996) 1 February – Dario Campeotto, performer (died 2023) 12 February Gerd Grubb, mathematician 27 March Per Golst, film director and producer (died 2025)
AprilJune 7 April Per Pinstrup-Andersen, economist
JulySeptember 13 July – John Danielsen, Danish football midfielder 5 August Flemming Topsøe, mathematician 3 September Vivi Bach, actress and model (died 2013)
OctoberDecember 2 November Svend Åge Madsen, novelist 8 November Henning Christophersen, politician and EU commissioner (died 2016) 15 November Erik Hansen, canoeist (died 2014)
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 10 January Dagmar Orlamundt, actress (born 1863) 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)
AprilJune 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)
JulySeptember 3 August – August Enna, composer (born 1859) 4 August Aage Giødesen, painter (born 1863)
OctoberDecember 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)
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