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Events from the year 1959 in Denmark.


Incumbents

* Monarch – Frederick IX * Prime minister –
H. C. Hansen Hans Christian Svane Hansen (8 November 1906 – 19 February 1960), often known as H. C. Hansen or simply H. C., was a Danish politician who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1955 until his death in 1960. A Social Democrat, Hansen served ...


Events

* 7 January MS ''Hans Hedtoft'' departs from Copenhagen on her maiden journey to Greenland. * 14 January M/S ''Hans Hedtoft'' arrives at Julianehåb. * 30 January M/S ''Hans Hedtoft'' sinks on the way back to Denmark. 95 lives are lost.


Sports


Date unknown

* Palle Lykke Jensen (DEN) and Kay Werner Nielsen (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.


Births


JanuaryMarch

* 14 January
Lars Høgh Poul Lars Høgh-Pedersen (; 14 January 1959 – 8 December 2021) was a Danish footballer, who played his entire career as a goalkeeper for Odense BK. He won three Danish football championships and three Danish Cup trophies with OB, and won the ...
, footballer * 18 January Bjarne Henriksen, actor * 25 February Poul Erik Tøjner, art historian and museum director


AprilJune

* 2 April – John Lauridsen, footballer * 2 May –
Lone Scherfig Lone Scherfig (; born 2 May 1959) is a Danish film director and screenwriter who has been involved with the Dogme 95 film movement and who has been widely critically acclaimed for several of her movies, including the Oscar-nominated film '' An ...
, film director * 22 May – Kenneth Brylle, footballer * 5 June –
Jesper Worre Jesper Worre, (born 5 June 1959) is a former Danish professional bicycle racer and a former director of the Danmarks Cykle Union (DCU) by the board of directors. Biography Worre competed in the team time trial event at the 1980 Summer Olymp ...
, cyclist


JulySeptember

* 22 August Pia Gjellerup, politician * 20 September Mona Juul, politician


OctoberDecember

* 8 October
Erik Gundersen Erik Gundersen (born 8 October 1959 in Esbjerg, Denmark) is a former motorcycle speedway rider in the late 1970s and 1980s. Gundersen is one of the most successful speedway riders of all time. He was the ...
, speedway driver * 13 November
Lene Hau Lene Vestergaard Hau (; born November 13, 1959) is a Danish physicist and educator. She is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University. In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose–E ...
, physicist * 27 November –
Pernille Sams Pernille Merete Sams (born 27 November 1959) is a Danish real estate agent, lawyer and former Conservative People's Party politician who was a member of the Folketing from 1987 to 2001. She was the lawyer of the Conservative People's Party and of ...
, real estate agent, lawyer and politician * 26 December Hans Nielsen, speedway rider


Deaths


JanuaryMarch

* 12 January –
Edvard Eriksen Edvard Eriksen (10 March 1876 – 12 January 1959) was a Danish–Icelandic sculptor. Biography He apprenticed as a wood carver, after which he trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts between 1894 and 1899. Eriksen's most famous work i ...
, sculptor, creator of the
Little Mermaid "The Little Mermaid" ( da, Den lille havfrue) is a literary fairy tale written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The story follows the journey of a young mermaid who is willing to give up her life in the sea as a mermaid to gain a h ...
statue (born
1876 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. ** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol. * February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs is ...
)


AprilJune

* 13 April –
Dagmar Hansen Dagmar Julie Augusta Hansen (12 November 1871 – 13 April 1959), a Danish cabaret-singer and stage-performer, became a national sensation as Denmark's first "pin-up girl". Early years Hansen, born 1871 in Rungsted, Denmark, as the daughter of a ...
, cabaret singer and stage performer, Denmark's first
pin-up girl A pin-up model (known as a pin-up girl for a female and less commonly male pin-up for a male) is a model whose mass-produced pictures see widespread appeal as part of popular culture. Pin-up models were variously glamour models, fashion models ...
(born 1871) * 21 April –
Hakon Andersen Jens Hakon Johannes Andersen (26 October 1875 – 21 April 1959) was a Danish organist and composer. He served as organist for a number of churches around Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most popul ...
, organist and composer (born
1875 Events January–March * January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the ...
) * 30 April
Daniel Andersen Daniel Andersen (25 November 1885 – 30 April 1959) was a Danish composer, sculptor, and ceramist. He studied music in Vienna; among his compositions are a handful of religious works and an opera Opera is a form of theatre in which mu ...
, composer, sculptor and ceramist (died 1885)


JulySeptember

* 8 August Harald Christensen, wrestler (born
1884 Events January–March * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's '' Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 18 – Dr. William Price at ...
) * 18 August Johan Ankerstjerne, cinematographer (born
1886 Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...
) * 28 August
Kay Bojesen Kay Bojesen (15 August 1886 – 28 August 1958) was a Danish silversmith and designer. He is best known for creating wooden animals, especially his wooden monkey which was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert museum in London in the nineteen-f ...
, designer (born
1889 Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in t ...
) * 2 September –
Sigvart Werner Sigvart Wilhelm Theodor Werner (13 June 1872 – 2 September 1959) was a Danish amateur photographer who gained fame through his artistic landscape photographs, published in book form. Encouraged by the success of his early work ''Dyrehaven og Jæ ...
, amateur photographer famous for his artistic landscape photographs (born
1872 Events January–March * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. * February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...
) * 20 September William Scharff, painter (born
1886 Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...
)


OctoberDecember

* 9 December –
John Olsen John Wayne Olsen, AO (born 7 June 1945) is a former Australian politician, diplomat and football commissioner. He was Premier of South Australia between 28 November 1996 and 22 October 2001. He is now President of the Federal Liberal Party, C ...
, film producer (died 1885) * 13 December –
Ingrid Vang Nyman Ingrid Vang Nyman (21 August 1916 – 13 December 1959) was a Danish illustrator noted for her work on the Pippi Longstocking books of which she was the original illustrator. Despite the worldwide fame of her Pippi illustrations, Vang Nyman did n ...
, illustrator (born
1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * J ...
)


See also

* 1959 in Danish television


References

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