Events from the year 1956 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Monarch – Frederick IX
Prime minister – H. C. Hansen
Events
Sports
Badminton
17 March Finn Kobberø and Jørgen Hammergaard Hansen win gold in Men's Double at the All England Badminton Championships
Cycling
27 Augustus - 2 September The 1956 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are held in Copenhagen.
Football
2 June BK Frem wins the 1955–56 Danish Cup by defeating AB 10 in the final.
Date unknown
Dominique Forlini (FRA) and Georges Senfftleben (FRA) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race. Lucien Gillen (LUX) and Gerrit Schulte (NED) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Births
13 March – John Frandsen, composer
30 September – Frank Arnesen, football player and manager
29 November – Lene Tranberg, architect and co-founder of Lundgaard & Tranberg
13 December – Jens Fink-Jensen, poet, author, photographer, composer and architect
Date unknown
Kristine Jensen, landscape architect
Deaths
JanuaryMarch
16 February Richard Olsen, rower (born 1011) 7 March – Johannes Gandil, athlete and footballer, competitor in athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics, silver medallist in football at the 1908 Summer Olympics (born 1873)
AprilJune
30 April – Morten Pedersen Porsild, botanist active in Greenland (born 1872) 19 May Susanne Augustesen, football player 17 June – Leck Fischer, writer (born 1904)
JulySeptember
21 July – Ejnar Nielsen, painter and illustrator, central proponent of symbolist painting (born 1872) 25 July – Estrid Hein, ophthalmologist and women's rights activist (born 1873) 31 August Helvig Kinch, painter and illustrator (born 1871)
OctoberDecember
30 November – Viggo Wiehe, stage and film actor (born 1874) 5 December – Christian Christensen, track and field athlete, competitor at the 1900 Summer Olympics (born 1876)
