1939 in Denmark

Events from the year 1939 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Christian X
 * Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Events

 * 29 November – Erling Dahl-Iversen gives the last lecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Surgery on Bredgade in Copenhagen.

Badminton

 * 12 March – Tage Madsen wins gold in Men's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships.

Cycling

 * Karel Kaers (BEL) and Omer De Bruycker (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Football

 * 5 March – Næstved Boldklub is founded.
 * B 93 wins their seventh Danish football championship by winning the 1938–39 Danish Championship League.

Births

 * 17 January – Niels Helveg Petersen, politician (died 2017)
 * 22 January – Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (d. 1996)
 * 1 February – Dario Campeotto, performer (died 2023)
 * 13 July – John Danielsen, Danish football midfielder
 * 2 November – Svend Åge Madsen, novelist
 * 8 November – Henning Christophersen, politician and EU commissioner (died 2016)
 * 15 November – Erik Hansen, canoeist (died 2014)

January–March

 * 14 January – Prince Valdemar of Denmark (born 1858)
 * 12 February – S. P. L. Sørensen, chemist (born 1868)
 * 26 March – Peter Hertz, art historian (born 1874)

April–June

 * 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)

July–September

 * 3 August – August Enna, composer (born 1859)
 * 4 August – Aage Giødesen, painter (born 1863)

October–December

 * 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)