1936 in Denmark

• Monarch – Christian X • Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning ==Events==

• 1–16 August – Denmark participates in the 1936 Summer Olympics and wins five medals. • 22 September – The 1936 Landsting elections are held. Undated • The political party Danish Unity is established. • The Viborg Handball Club is established. ==Sports==

Cycling • Albert Billiet (BEL) and Werner Grundahl Hansen (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race. • Jan Pijnenburg (NED) and Frans Slaats (NED) and win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race. Football • Frem wins their fourth Danish football championship by winning the 1935–36 Danish Championship League. ==Births==

. . JanuaryMarch • 13 March – Finn Kobberø, badminton player (d. 2009) • 19 March – Birthe Wilke, singer • 29 March – Mogens Camre, politician (d. 2016) AprilJune • 28 April – John Tchicai, jazz musician and composer (d. 2012) • 30 June – Flemming Flindt, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2009) JulySeptember • 10 August – Malene Schwartz, actress • 17 September – Jan Gehl, architect, urban planner OctoberDecember • 1 November – Mimi Heinrich, actress and writer (d. 2017) • 30 November – Knud Enemark Jensen, racing cyclist (d. 1960) • 7 December – Annette Stroyberg, actress (d. 2005) ==Deaths==

JanuaryMarch • 3 February Heinrich Wenck, architect (born 1851) • 4 February Wilhelm Hansen, businessman and art collector (born 1868) • 22 January – Louis Glass, composer (b. 1864) • 22 February – Johan Skjoldborg, novelist, playwright and memoirist (b. 1861) AprilJune • 23 April – Thomas Bærentzen, sculptor (b. 1869) JulySeptember • 3 August – Carl William Hansen, author, Luciferian, wandering bishop and occultist (b. 1872) • 2 September Niels Neergaard, politician (born 1854) • 27 September Hans Peter Prior, industrialist (born 1866) OctoberDecember • 9 October – Carl Christensen, Denmark's last executioner (b. 1869) • 22 October – Hedevig Quiding, singer and music critic (b. 1867) • 24 November – J. A. D. Jensen, naval officer and Arctic explorer (b. 1849) • 13 December Harald Ludvig Westergaard, economist, statician (born 1853) ==References==