Events from the year 1946 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian X Prime minister – Knud Kristensen
Events 5 January Flemming Helweg-Larsen is executed executed in the first application of the capital punishment in Denmark in 54 years. 30 August – Princess Anne-Marie, future Queen of Greece, is born to Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Ingrid of Sweden.
Sports Football B03 wins the 1945–46 Danish 1st Division. It is their ninth Danish football championship.
Births JanuaryMarch 9 January – Mogens Lykketoft, politician 17 February Valdemar Bandolowski, sailor 15 March – Krass Clement, photographer 19 March – Dan Turèll, writer (died 1993)
AprilJune 5 May Leif Mortensen, cyclist 27 May – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, jazz bassist (died 2005) 2 June – Inga Nielsen, opera singer (died 2008) 25 June Ulrik le Fevre, footballer and manager (died 2024) 29 June – Gitte Hænning, actress
JulySeptember 30 August – Princess Anne-Marie, future Queen of Greece
OctoberDecember 27 October – Peter Martins, ballet dancer, choreographer 28 October Niels Fredborg, cyclist 3 November Holger Pedersen, astronomer
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 5 January Flemming Helweg-Larsen, Nazi Germany collaborator and murderer (born 1911) 3 February – Carl Theodor Zahle, politician, Council President of Denmark (born 1866) 9 March – William Wain Prior, major-general, commander-in-chief of the Royal Danish Army 1939–41 (born 1876) 26 March – Gerhard Heilmann, paleontologist, scientific illustrator (born 1859)
AprilJune 26 April – Oluf Ring, composer (born 1886) 20 May – Jacob Ellehammer, inventor (born 1871) 26 May – Petrine Sonne, stage and film actress (born 1870)
JulySeptember 13 July – Valdemar Rørdam, national conservative poet, author of "Denmark in a Thousand Years" (born 1872) 31 August – Paul von Klenau, composer and conductor (born 1883)
OctoberDecember 10 October – Eyvind Johan-Svendsen, stage and film actor (born 1896) 15 December – Johannes Friis-Skotte, politician, Minister of Public Works (Transport) 1924–1926 and 1929–1935 (born 1874)
Date unknown Johanne Agerskov, intermediary (born 1873)
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