Events from the year 1941 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian X Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning
Events
Sports Frem wings their fifth Danish football championship by winning the 1940–41 Danish War Tournament.
Births
JanuaryMarch 8 January – Ole Søltoft, actor (died 1999) 20 February Nina Hole, artist (died 2016) 4 March Jannik Hastrup, writer, director, producer, illustrator and animator. 22 March – Hugo Rasmussen, jazz bassist (died 2015)
AprilJune 24 April Ole Sporring, painter and illustrator 19 May Ritt Bjerregaard, politician (died 2023) Erik Reitzel, engineer (died 2012) 25 May Per Arnoldi, artist 2 June Peter Hansen, diplomat
JulySeptember 25 July – Britta Schall Holberg, politician (died 2022) 25 August Holger Bech Nielsen. physicist 29 August Ole Ritter, cyclist
OctoberDecember 26 October Harald Nielsen, footballer (died 2015) 1 November – Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, politician (died 2022) 6 November – Grethe Fenger Møller, Danish politician 28 November – Jesper Thilo, jazz saxophonist (died 2026)
Deaths JanuaryMarch 15 January Erik Raadal, painter (born 1905) 14 March – Herluf Zahle, barrister with the Supreme Court, career diplomat, President of the League of Nations 1928–29 (born 1873)
AprilJune 10 May – Gustav Bartholin Hagen, architect (born 1873) 20 June – Peder Mørk Mønsted, painter (born 1859)
JulySeptember 25 July – Christian Sonne, politician (born 1859) 30 August – Peder Oluf Pedersen, engineer and physicist, IEEE Medal of Honor recipient in 1930 (born 1874) 28 September Kirstine Meyer, physicist (born 1861)
OctoberDecember 3 November – Jens Christian Kofoed, architect (born 1864) 26 November – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, sculptor (born 1861) 12 December – Agnes Lunn, painter and sculptor (born 1850)
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