1952 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1952 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX^[1]
• Prime minister – Erik Eriksen

Events

See main article: 1952.

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

Cycling

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

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 15 February Jens Jørn Bertelsen, footballer
• 29 February – Orla Østerby, politician
• 19 March – Ole Rasmussen,footballer

AprilJune

• 3 April – Orla Hav, politician
• 4 April – Villy Søvndal, politician
• 27 April – Ole Svendsen, welterweight boxer
• 29 May – Pia Tafdrup, writer and poet
• 11 June – Anne Birgitte Lundholt, politician and businessperson
• 19 June – Poul Nesgaard, television personality, director of the National Film School of Denmark

JulySeptember

• 8 July Knud Arne Jürgensen, music historian
• 24 July Carsten Jensen, author
• 14 August – Jeanette Oppenheim, lawyer and politician
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frederick IX: king of Denmark. Encyclopedia Britannica. 16 June 2019. en.