1958 in Denmark

Events from the year 1958 in Denmark.

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Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1958 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX^[1]
• Prime minister – H. C. Hansen

Events

Main article: 1958

Sports

Badminton

• 19–23 March – All England Badminton Championships
  • Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Singles
  • Erland Kops and Poul-Erik Nielsen win gold in Men's Doubles

Date unknown

• Emile Severeyns (BEL) and Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

January–March

• 1 January – Flemming Rasmussen, record producer
• 23 January – Bo Lidegaard, historian and editor-in-chief
• 3 February – Klaus Berggreen, footballer
• 10 February – Kim Andersen, racing cyclist
• 26 March – Michael Madsen, light-heavyweight boxer
• 4 April – Morten Frost, badminton player
• 10 April – Flemming Christensen, footballer and manager

April–June

• 4 April – Morten Frost, badminton player
• 22 April – Jesper Garnell, boxer
• 26 April – Giancarlo Esposito, actor
• 3 May – Sandi Toksvig, Danish-British comedian
• 23 May – Inger Andersen, economist and environmentalist
• 11 June – Nille Juul-Sørensen, architect

July–September

• 7 July – Michala Petri, recorder player
• 11 July – Hank Shermann, artist
• 18 July – Bent Sørensen, composer
• 8 September – Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, paleoclimatologist
• 12 September – Kim Fupz Aakeson, author, screenwriter
• 14 September – Mikael Birkkjær, actor
• 24 September – Benedikte Hansen, actress
• 28 September – Peter Gantzler, actor

Deaths

January–March

• 11 March – Ole Kirk Christiansen, entrepreneur and businessman, inventor of Lego (born 1891)
• 12 March – Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (born 1878)
• 14 March – Marius Lefèrve, gymnast, Olympic silver medalist in team, Swedish system, in 1912 (born 1875)

April–June

• 4 April – Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, artist (born 1863)
• 24 June – Ole Bendixen, explorer, merchant and author (born 1869)

July–September

• 5 July – Vilhelm Wolfhagen, footballer (born 1889)
• 12 July – Gudmund Schütte, philologist and historian (born 1872)
• 28 August – Kay Bojesen, silversmith and designer (born 1886)
• 18 September – William Thalbitzer, philologist, professor of Eskimo studies at the University of Copenhagen (born 1873)
• 25 September – Carl Brisson, actor (born 1893)
• 28 September – Henrik Malberg, theater and cinema actor (born 1873)

October–December

• 4 December – Emilie Demant Hatt, artist, writer and ethnographer (born 1873)

See also

• 1958 in Danish television