Events from the year 1958 in Denmark.

Incumbents Monarch – Frederik IX Prime minister – H. C. Hansen

Events

Sports Badminton 1923 March All England Badminton Championships Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Singles Erland Kops and Poul-Erik Nielsen win gold in Men's Doubles

Date unknown Emile Severeyns (BEL) and Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

JanuaryMarch 1 January Flemming Rasmussen, record producer 23 January Bo Lidegaard, historian and editor-in-chief 3 February Klaus Berggreen, footballer 10 February Kim Andersen, racing cyclist 26 March – Michael Madsen, light-heavyweight boxer 4 April – Morten Frost, badminton player 10 April – Flemming Christensen, footballer and manager

AprilJune 4 April Morten Frost, badminton player 22 April – Jesper Garnell, boxer 26 April – Giancarlo Esposito, actor 3 May – Sandi Toksvig, Danish-British comedian 23 May – Inger Andersen, economist and environmentalist 12 June – Nille Juul-Sørensen, architect

JulySeptember 7 July – Michala Petri, recorder player 11 July – Hank Shermann, artist 18 July – Bent Sørensen, composer 8 September Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, paleoclimatologist 12 September Kim Fupz Aakeson, author, screenwriter 14 September – Mikael Birkkjær, actor 24 September – Benedikte Hansen, actress 28 September – Peter Gantzler, actor

OctoberDecember 11 November Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin, diplomat

Deaths

JanuaryMarch 11 March – Ole Kirk Christiansen, entrepreneur and businessman, inventor of Lego (born 1891) 3 March Vilhelm Hvalsøe, architect (died 1883) 12 March – Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (born 1878) 14 March – Marius Lefèrve, gymnast, Olympic silver medalist in team, Swedish system, in 1912 (born 1875)

AprilJune 4 April Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, artist (born 1863) 24 June – Ole Bendixen, explorer, merchant and author (born 1869)

JulySeptember 5 July – Vilhelm Wolfhagen, footballer (born 1889) 12 July – Gudmund Schütte, philologist and historian (born 1872) 28 August – Kay Bojesen, silversmith and designer (born 1886) 18 September – William Thalbitzer, philologist, professor of Eskimo studies at the University of Copenhagen (born 1873) 25 September – Carl Brisson, actor (born 1893) 28 September – Henrik Malberg, theater and cinema actor (born 1873)

OctoberDecember 4 December – Emilie Demant Hatt, artist, writer and ethnographer (born 1873)

See also 1958 in Danish television

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