1948 in Denmark

• Monarch – Frederik IX • Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft ==Events==

Badminton • 36 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. ==Births==

. . JanuaryMarch • 27 January – Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, philologist and gender studies scholar • 12 March – Ole Thestrup, actor (died 2018) AprilJune • 2 April – Roald Als, cartoonist and writer • 16 May – Jesper Christensen, actor JulySeptember • 3 July Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, business executive • 16 August Lars Larsen, businessman, company founder (died 2019) • 21 August Sonja Albrink, politician (died 2012) • 1 September Birthe Kjær, singer OctoberDecember • 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 ==Deaths==

. . . JanuaryMarch • 7 February – Carl Andreas Koefoed, agronomist (born 1855) • 27 February Svend Hammershøi, painter and ceramist (born 1873) • 24 March – Vilhelm Arnesen, painter (born 1865) AprilJune • 13 April – John Christmas Møller, politician, foreign minister (born 1894) • 24 May – Adolph Jensen, economist and statistician (born 1866) • 26 May Rikard Magnussen, sculptor (died 1885) • 14 June Ellen Jørgensen, historian and librarian (born 1877) JulySeptember • 8 July Peter Rochegune Munch, historian and politician (born 1870) • 21 August – Ole Falkentorp, architect (born 1886) • 13 September – Henning Haslund-Christensen, travel writer and anthropologist (born 1896) OctoberDecember • 4 October – Camillo Carlsen, composer (born 1876) • 5 November Ingeborg Appel, educator (born 1869) • 1 December – Herman Vedel, painter and portraitist (born 1875) ==References==