The following are events of the year 1961 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederik IX Prime minister – Viggo Kampmann
Events 28 March – The Danish Maritime and Commercial Court is created by act.
Sports Badminton 1417 March All England Badminton Championships Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Singles Finn Kobberø and Jørgen Hammergaard Hansen win gold in Men's Doubles Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold medal in Mixed Doubles.
Sports Badminton 1416 March All England Badminton Championships Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Singles Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold medal in Mixed Doubles.
Births
JanuaryMarch 3 March Bodil Jørgensen, actress
AprilJune 8 April Lars Bom, actor 21 May Kåre Schultz, business executive 22 May Dan Frost, cyclist 28 May – Frank Jensen, politician, lord mayor of Copenhagen
JulySeptember 20 July Tommy Christensen, footballer 26 July , architect 26 September – Charlotte Fich, actress
OctoberDecember 19 November – Pernille Svarre, athlete 28 December – Kent Nielsen, footballer and manager
Deaths JanuaryMarch 21 March Axel Salto, ceramist (born 1889)
AprilJune 21 April Jean René Gauguin, sculptor (born 1881 in France) 6 June – Frants Nielsen, sport shooter, competitor at the 1912 Summer Olympics (born 1874) 20 June Leif B. Hendil, journalist active in the Rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II (born 1898)
JulySeptember 2 July Pola Gauguin, painter and writer (born 1883) 11 July Elof Risebye, painter (born 1892) 18 September – Hans Denver, sport shooter, competitor at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics (born 1876) 19 September Thorvald Pedersen, pharmacist and company founder (born 1887)
OctoberDecember 25 October Mary Willumsen, photographer (born 1884) 8 November Jais Nielsen, painter (born 1885) 20 December Johannes Larsen, nature painter (born 1867) Johan Frederik Steffensen, mathematician, statistician and actuary, professor of actuarial science at the University of Copenhagen 1923–43 (born 1873)
See also 1961 in Danish television
References