1909 in Denmark

The following lists events that happened during 1909 in the Kingdom of Denmark.

← 1908 1907 1906 1909 in Denmark → 1910 1911 1912
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1909 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VIII^[1]
• Prime minister – Niels Neergaard (until 16 August), Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg (until 28 October), Carl Theodor Zahle

Events

• 20 April – Women are given the right to vote in municipal elections. General women's suffrage is not introduced in Denmark until 1915.^[2]

Sports

• 9 June – Skovshoved IF is founded.

Cycling

• 14–23 August – The 1909 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are held in Copenhagen.

Births

January–March

• 3 January – Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, conductor and pianist (d. 2000)
• 22 February – Vermund Larsen, businessman, company founder (died 1970)

April–June

• 9 May – Hilde Levi, physicist (died 2003)

July–September

• 5 July – Aagot Lading, educator (died 1963)

October–December

• 20 August – Martin A. Hansen, writer (died 1955)
• 20 December – Vagn Holmboe, composer (died 1996)

Deaths

January–March

• 13 February
  • Hugo Egmont Hørring, politician, prime minister of Denmark (born 1842)
  • Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, lawyer (born 1826)

April–June

• 7 May – Joachim Andersen, flutist, conductor and composer (born 1847)

July–September

• 9 July – Johannes Forchhammer, philologist (born 1827)
• 19 July – Leopold Rosenfeld, composer (born 1849)
• 27 August – Emil Christian Hansen, chemist (born 1842)
• 25 September – Thomas Skat Rørdam, theologian and bishop (born 1832)

October–December

• 13 October – Janus la Cour, painter (born 1837)
• 21 November – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-born painter (b. 1851)
• 4 December – Princess Marie of Orléans, wife of Prince Valdemar (born 1865 in London)
• 29/30 December – Carl Emil Krarup, telegraph engineer, mainly known for the invention of the Krarup cable, a kind of loaded cable (born 1872)