Events from the year 1948 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederik IX Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft
Events
Sports Badminton 36 March 1948 All England Badminton Championships Jørn Skaarup wins gold in Men's Single Kirsten Thorndahl wins gold in Women's Single Preben Dabelsteen and Børge Frederiksen win gold in Men's Double Tonny Ahm and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Women's Double* Jørn Skaarup and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Mixed Double 22 April – Hvidovre Badminton Club is founded.
Football KB wins the 1947–48 Danish 1st Division. It is their ninth Danish football championship.
Births
JanuaryMarch 27 January – Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, philologist and gender studies scholar 12 March – Ole Thestrup, actor (died 2018)
AprilJune 2 April – Roald Als, cartoonist and writer 16 May – Jesper Christensen, actor
JulySeptember 3 July Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, business executive 16 August Lars Larsen, businessman, company founder (died 2019) 21 August Sonja Albrink, politician (died 2012) 1 September Birthe Kjær, singer
OctoberDecember 8 October – Hans Engell, journalist, politician minister of justice 22 October – Bo Holten, composer and conductor 25 October Suste Bonnén, photographer 9 November – Bille August, Oscar-winning film director 7 December – Mads Vinding, jazz bassist
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 7 February – Carl Andreas Koefoed, agronomist (born 1855) 27 February Svend Hammershøi, painter and ceramist (born 1873) 24 March – Vilhelm Arnesen, painter (born 1865)
AprilJune 13 April – John Christmas Møller, politician, foreign minister (born 1894) 24 May – Adolph Jensen, economist and statistician (born 1866) 26 May Rikard Magnussen, sculptor (died 1885) 7 June Anne Knudsen, anthropologist, editor, journalist and researcher (died 2022) 14 June Ellen Jørgensen, historian and librarian (born 1877)
JulySeptember 8 July Peter Rochegune Munch, historian and politician (born 1870) 21 August – Ole Falkentorp, architect (born 1886) 13 September – Henning Haslund-Christensen, travel writer and anthropologist (born 1896)
OctoberDecember 4 October – Camillo Carlsen, composer (born 1876) 5 November Ingeborg Appel, educator (born 1869) 1 December – Herman Vedel, painter and portraitist (born 1875)
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