1948 in Denmark

Events from the year 1948 in Denmark.

← 1947 1946 1945 1948 in Denmark → 1949 1950 1951
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1948 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX
• Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft

Events

Main article: 1948

Sports

Badminton

• 3–6 March – 1948 All England Badminton Championships
  • Jørn Skaarup wins gold in Men's Single
  • Kirsten Thorndahl wins gold in Women's Single
  • Preben Dabelsteen and Børge Frederiksen win gold in Men's Double
  • Tonny Ahm and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Women's Double* Jørn Skaarup and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Mixed Double
• 22 April – Hvidovre Badminton Club is founded.

Football

• KB wins the 1947–48 Danish 1st Division. It is their ninth Danish football championship.

Births

January–March

• 27 January – Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, philologist and gender studies scholar
• 27 February – Svend Hammershøi, painter and ceramist (born 1873)
• 12 March – Ole Thestrup, actor (died 2018)

April–June

• 2 April – Roald Als, cartoonist and writer
• 16 May – Jesper Christensen, actor

July–September

• 3 July – Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, business executive
• 16 August – Lars Larsen, businessman, company founder (died 2019)

October–December

• 8 October – Hans Engell, journalist, politician minister of justice
• 22 October – Bo Holten, composer and conductor
• 25 October – Suste Bonnén, photographer
• 9 November – Bille August, Oscar-winning film director
• 7 December – Mads Vinding, jazz bassist

Deaths

January–March

• 28 January – Peter Rochegune Munch, historian and politician, served in three governments between 1909 and 1940 (born 1870)
• 7 February – Carl Andreas Koefoed, agronomist (born 1855)
• 24 March – Vilhelm Arnesen, painter (born 1865)

April–June

• 13 April – John Christmas Møller, politician, foreign minister (born 1894)
• 24 May – Adolph Jensen, economist and statistician (born 1866)

July–September

• 21 August – Ole Falkentorp, architect (born 1886)
• 13 September – Henning Haslund-Christensen, travel writer and anthropologist (born 1896)

October–December

• 4 October – Camillo Carlsen, composer (born 1876)
  • 5 November – Ingeborg Appel, educator (born 1869)
• 1 December – Herman Vedel, painter and portraitist (born 1875)