Incumbents

• Monarch - HM Christian X
  Christian X of Denmark
  Christian X was King of Denmark from 1912 to 1947 and the only King of Iceland between 1918 and 1944....
  
  
• Prime minister - Thorvald Stauning
  Thorvald Stauning
  Thorvald August Marinus Stauning was the first social democratic Prime Minister of Denmark. He served as Prime Minister from 1924 to 1926 and again from 1929 until his death in 1942....
  
  

Events

• • 31 August - Karen Blixen
    Karen Blixen
    Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke , , née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. She also wrote under the pen names Osceola and Pierre Andrézel...
    
     returns to Denmark after living 28 years in Kenya
    Kenya
    Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
    
    , settling at her native Rungstedlund
    Rungstedlund
    Rungstedlund, also known as the Karen Blixen Museum, is a country house in Rungsted on the Øresund coast just north of Copenhagen, Denmark, notable for its association with the author Karen Blixen, who lived there for most of her life...
    
    .

Deaths

• February 18 – Peter Elfelt
  Peter Elfelt
  Peter Elfelt was a Danish photographer and film director known as the first film pioneer in Denmark when he began making documentary movies in 1897.-Biography:Peter Elfelt was born Peter Lars Petersen in Denmark on 1 January 1866...
  
  , photographer (b. 1866
  1866 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – C. E. Frijs-Births:* January 1 – Peter Elfelt, photographer * July 3 – Albert Gottschalk, painter * August 31 – Georg Jensen, goldsmith, designer...
  
  )
• December 3 - Carl Nielsen
  Carl Nielsen
  Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
  
  , composer (born 1865
  1865 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – Christian Albrecht Bluhme , C. E. Frijs-Deaths:* April 7 – Carl Dahl, painter...
  
  
• December 23 – Asger Skovgaard Ostenfeld
  Asger Skovgaard Ostenfeld
  Asger Skovgaard Ostenfeld was a Danish civil engineer who specialized in the theory of steel and reinforced concrete structures. He is now considered to be the founding father of the theory of structures in Denmark....
  
  , engineer (born 1866)

See also