The following are events of the year 1961 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Monarch – Frederick 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
3 March Bodil Jørgensen, actress
22 May Dan Frost, cyclist
28 May – Frank Jensen, politician, lord mayor of Copenhagen
19 November – Pernille Svarre, athlete
Deaths
JanuaryMarch
21 March Axel Saltom ceramist (born 1889)
AprilJune
6 June – Frants Nielsen, sport shooter, competitor at the 1912 Summer Olympics (born 1874)
JulySeptember
11 July Elof Risebye, painter (born 1892) 18 September – Hans Denver, sport shooter, competitor at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics (born 1876)
OctoberDecember
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)