1946 in Denmark

← 1945 1944 1943 1946 in Denmark → 1947 1948 1949
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1946 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1946 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Knud Kristensen

Events

• 30 August – Princess Anne-Marie, future Queen of Greece, is born to Crown Prince Frederick and Crown Princess Ingrid of Sweden.

Births

• 9 January – Mogens Lykketoft, politician
• 15 March – Krass Clement, photographer
• 19 March – Dan Turèll, writer (died 1993)
• 27 May – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, jazz bassist (died 2005)
• 2 June – Inga Nielsen, opera singer (died 2008)
• 30 August – Princess Anne-Marie, future Queen of Greece
• 27 October – Peter Martins, ballet dancer, choreographer

Deaths

• 3 February – Carl Theodor Zahle, politician, Council President of Denmark (born 1866)
• 9 March – William Wain Prior, major-general, commander-in-chief of the Royal Danish Army 1939–41 (born 1876)
• 26 March – Gerhard Heilmann, paleontologist, scientific illustrator (born 1859)
• 26 April – Oluf Ring, composer (born 1886)
• 20 May – Jacob Ellehammer, inventor (born 1871)
• 26 May – Petrine Sonne, stage and film actress (born 1870)
• 13 July – Valdemar Rørdam, national conservative poet, author of "Denmark in a Thousand Years" (born 1872)
• 31 August – Paul von Klenau, composer and conductor (born 1883)
• 10 October – Eyvind Johan-Svendsen, stage and film actor (born 1896)
• 15 December – Johannes Friis-Skotte, politician, Minister of Public Works (Transport) 1924–1926 and 1929–1935 (born 1874)

References

See also