Events from the year 1960 in Denmark.

Incumbents Monarch – Frederik IX Prime minister – H. C. Hansen (until 19 February), Viggo Kampmann

Events 15 November – The 1960 parliamentary election is held. 28 November – The Danish Academy is founded.

Sports Badminton 1923 March All England Badminton Championships Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Single Erland Kops and Poul-Erik Nielsen win gold in Men's Doubles Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold medal in Mixed Doubles.

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

Births

JanuaryMarch 14 January – Per Fly, film director Ø 25 February Joakim Garff, theologian and Søren Kierkegaard researcher

AprilJune 15 April – Susanne Bier, film director 11 May Jesper Asholt, actor

JulySeptember 6 July Liselotte Plesner, civil servant and ambasador 8 July – Susanne Nielsson, breaststroke swimmer 3 August – Kim Milton Nielsen, football referee 10 August Lone Gram, microbiologist 19 August Morten Andersen, American-football player 24 August – Kim Christofte, footballer 15 September Connie Hedegaard, politician and public intellectual

OctoberDecember 29 October – Jens Winther, jazz trumpeter (died 2011) 2 December – Anders Hejlsberg, software engineer

Deaths

JanuaryMarch 21 January – Launy Grøndahl, composer and conductor (born 1886) 27 January – Gudmund Hatt, archaeologist and cultural geographer (born 1884) 19 February – H. C. Hansen, politician and Prime Minister 1955–60 (born 1906) 27 March – Holger Jacobsen, architect (born 1876)

AprilJune 18 April – C. L. David, lawyer, art collector and philanthropist (born 1878) 24 June – Harald Moltke, nobleman, painter and author (born 1871)

JulySeptember 27 July Julie Vinter Hansen, astronomer (born 1890) 16 August – Christine Swane, painter associated with the "Funen Painters" (born 1876) 26 August – Knud Enemark Jensen, racing cyclist (born 1936) 1 September – Knud Heglund, actor (born 1894) 15 September Else Frölich, actress (born 1880 in France)

OctoberDecember 4 October Oscar Gundlach-Pedersen, architect (born 1886) 11 December – Svend Rindom, screenwriter and actor (born 1884) 12 December – Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen, sculptor and ceramist, model master of Bing & Grøndahl 1897–1917, artistic director of Norden 1917–1925 (born 1874) 13 December – Malvina Mehrn, animal rights activist (born 1862). 22 December – Sophus Black, telegraph manager and art collector (born 1882)

See also 1960 in Danish television

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