1948 in Denmark

Events from the year 1948 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederik IX
 * Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft

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.

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

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)