Events from the year 1952 in Denmark.

Incumbents

Monarch – Frederick IX

Prime minister – Erik Eriksen

Events

Sports

Badminton

711 March All England Badminton Championships

Tonny Ahm wins gold in Women's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships. Tonny Ahm and Aase Schiøtt Jacobsen wins gold in Women's Doubles Poul Holm and Tonny Ahm win gold in Mixed Doubles

1952 in Denmark

Cycling

Date unknown Lucien Gillen (LUX) and Kay Werner Nielsen (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

1952 in Denmark

Births

JanuaryMarch

5 February Jens Jørn Bertelsen, footballer

29 February – Orla Østerby, politician

AprilJune

3 April – Orla Hav, politician

27 April – Ole Svendsen, welterweight boxer

22 May Bo Skovhus, opera singer

11 June – Anne Birgitte Lundholt, politician and businessperson

19 June – Poul Nesgaard, television personality, director of the National Film School of Denmark

1952 in Denmark

JulySeptember

24 July Carsten Jensen, author

21 September Jens Nørskov, physicist

OctoberDecember

17 October Thomas Rørdam, lawyer, judge

15 December – Allan Simonsen, footballer, 1977 European Footballer of the Year

23 December – Hans Abrahamsen, composer

Deaths

18 April – Agnes Smidt, painter and cultural activist (born 1874) 22 May – Liva Weel, actress (born 1897) 4 June – Rasmus Harboe, sculptor (born 1868) 10 July – Rued Langgaard, composer and organist (born 1893) 7 November – Christian Nielsen, sailor, silver medallist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (born 1873)

Date unknown

August Hesselbo, pharmaceutical botanist and bryologist (born 1874)

References

Denmark

Years of the 20th century in Denmark

1950s in Denmark

1952 in Europe