Events from the year 1952 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederik IX Prime minister – Erik Eriksen
Events
Sports Badminton 711 March All England Badminton Championships Tonny Ahm wins gold in Women's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships. Tonny Ahm and Aase Schiøtt Jacobsen wins gold in Women's Doubles Poul Holm and Tonny Ahm win gold in Mixed Doubles
Cycling Date unknown Lucien Gillen (LUX) and Kay Werner Nielsen (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Births JanuaryMarch 15 February Jens Jørn Bertelsen, footballer 29 February – Orla Østerby, politician 19 March – Ole Rasmussen, footballer
AprilJune 3 April – Orla Hav, politician 4 April – Villy Søvndal, politician 27 April – Ole Svendsen, welterweight boxer 29 May – Pia Tafdrup, writer and poet 11 June – Anne Birgitte Lundholt, politician and businessperson 19 June – Poul Nesgaard, television personality, director of the National Film School of Denmark
JulySeptember 8 July Knud Arne Jürgensen, music historian 24 July Carsten Jensen, author 14 August – Jeanette Oppenheim, lawyer and politician 21 September Jens Nørskov, physicist
OctoberDecember 17 October Thomas Rørdam, lawyer, judge 9 November Michael Møller, diplomat 15 December – Allan Simonsen, footballer, 1977 European Footballer of the Year 23 December – Hans Abrahamsen, composer
Deaths 18 April – Agnes Smidt, painter and cultural activist (born 1874) 22 May – Liva Weel, actress (born 1897) 4 June – Rasmus Harboe, sculptor (born 1868) 10 July – Rued Langgaard, composer and organist (born 1893) 7 November – Christian Nielsen, sailor, silver medallist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (born 1873)
Date unknown August Hesselbo, pharmaceutical botanist and bryologist (born 1874)
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