1939 in Denmark

Events from the year 1939 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Deaths

• 26 March – Peter Hertz, art historian (born 1874)
• 7 April – Mary Steen, photographer (born 1856)
• 24 April – Harald Scavenius, diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1920–22 (born 1873)
• 4 June – Carl Cohn Haste, blind pianist, organist and composer, music teacher at the Royal Blind Institute, first president of the Danish Association of the Blind (born 1874)
• 3 August – August Enna, composer (born 1859)
• 4 October – Jens Lind, apothecary, botanist and mycologist (born 1874)
• 16 October – Ludolf Nielsen, composer, violinist, conductor and pianist (born 1876)
• 20 December – Fritz Syberg, artist and illustrator (born 1862)

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