1960 in Denmark

• 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. ==Sports==

Badminton • 1923 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. ==Births==

. . JanuaryMarch • 14 January – Per Fly, film director Ø 25 February Joakim Garff, theologian and Søren Kierkegaard researcher AprilJune • 15 April – Susanne Bier, film director • 11 May Jesper Asholt, actor JulySeptember • 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 OctoberDecember • 29 October – Jens Winther, jazz trumpeter (died 2011) • 2 December – Anders Hejlsberg, software engineer ==Deaths==

. JanuaryMarch • 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) AprilJune • 18 April – C. L. David, lawyer, art collector and philanthropist (born 1878) • 24 June – Harald Moltke, nobleman, painter and author (born 1871) JulySeptember • 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) • 15 September Else Frölich, actress (born 1880 in France) OctoberDecember • 4 October Oscar Gundlach-Pedersen, architect (born 1886) • 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) • 13 December – Malvina Mehrn, animal rights activist (born 1862). • 22 December – Sophus Black, telegraph manager and art collector (born 1882) ==See also==