Incumbents

• Monarch – HM Frederik IX
• Prime minister – Jens Otto Krag
  Jens Otto Krag
  Jens Otto Krag was a Danish politician. He was Prime Minister from 1962 to 1968 and again from 1971 to 1972....
  
  

Births

• February 7 – Chris Minh Doky
  Chris Minh Doky
  Chris Minh Doky is a Vietnamese-Danish bassist living in Copenhagen and New York City. Though Doky has worked in many genres, his main area of music is jazz...
  
  , jazz bassist, composer, producer
• May 19 – Thomas Vinterberg
  Thomas Vinterberg
  Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production....
  
  , film director

Deaths

• January 2 – Julius Bomholt
  Julius Bomholt
  Julius Bomholt was a Danish politician representing the Social Democrats.He was a member of the Folketing 1929-1968 and served as speaker in 1945-1950 and again 1964-1968...
  
  , politician (born 1896
  1896 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – Tage Reedtz-Thott-Births:* March 4 – Kai Holm, actor * June 11 – Julius Bomholt, politician * August 12 – Ejner Federspiel, actor...
  
  )
• December 16 – Leo Mathisen
  Leo Mathisen
  Leo "The Lion" Mathisen was a Danish jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer and bandleader. He was a leading figure of the thriving Danish scene during the years around World War II—a period which has been labelled the Golden Age of Danish Jazz—and he is considered to be one of most...
  
  , jazz pianist, singer (born 1906
  1906 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch - HM Christian IX , HM Frederick VIII* Prime minister - J. C. Christensen-Events:* September 12 – The Inventor and aviation pioneer Jacob Christian Ellehammer makes a sustained bu tethered flightin his self-built Ellehammer semi-biplane on the small island of Lindholm...
  
  )

See also