1960 in Denmark

Events from the year 1960 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederik IX
 * Prime minister – H. C. Hansen (until 19 February), Viggo Kampmann

Events

 * 15 November – The 1960 parliamentary election is held.
 * 28 November – The Danish Academy is founded.

Badminton

 * 19–23 March – All England Badminton Championships
 * Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Single
 * Erland Kops and Poul-Erik Nielsen win gold in Men's Doubles
 * Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold medal in Mixed Doubles.

Date unknown

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

January–March

 * 14 January – Per Fly, film director

April–June

 * 15 April – Susanne Bier, film director
 * 11 May – Jesper Asholt, actor

July–September

 * 6 July – Liselotte Plesner, civil servant and ambasador
 * 8 July – Susanne Nielsson, breaststroke swimmer
 * 3 August – Kim Milton Nielsen, football referee
 * 10 August – Lone Gram, microbiologist
 * 19 August – Morten Andersen, American-football player
 * 24 August – Kim Christofte, footballer
 * 15 September – Connie Hedegaard, politician and public intellectual

October–December

 * 29 October – Jens Winther, jazz trumpeter (died 2011)
 * 2 December – Anders Hejlsberg, software engineer

January–March

 * 21 January – Launy Grøndahl, composer and conductor (born 1886)
 * 27 January – Gudmund Hatt, archaeologist and cultural geographer (born 1884)
 * 19 February – H. C. Hansen, politician and Prime Minister 1955–60 (born 1906)
 * 27 March – Holger Jacobsen, architect (born 1876)

April–June

 * 18 April – C. L. David, lawyer, art collector and philanthropist (born 1878)
 * 24 June – Harald Moltke, nobleman, painter and author (born 1871)

July–September

 * 27 July – Julie Vinter Hansen, astronomer (born 1890)
 * 16 August – Christine Swane, painter associated with the "Funen Painters" (born 1876)
 * 26 August – Knud Enemark Jensen, racing cyclist (born 1936)
 * 1 September – Knud Heglund, actor (born 1894)

October–December

 * 11 December – Svend Rindom, screenwriter and actor (born 1884)
 * 12 December – Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen, sculptor and ceramist, model master of Bing & Grøndahl 1897–1917, artistic director of Norden 1917–1925 (born 1874)
 * 22 December – Sophus Black, telegraph manager and art collector (born 1882)