Events from the year 1951 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederik IX Prime minister – Erik Eriksen
Events 23 January The hospital ship MS Jutlandia departs from Copenhagen, bound for Jorea.
Sports Badminton 711 March All England Badminton Championships Aase Schiøtt Jacobsen wins gold in Women's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships. Tonny Ahm and Kirsten Thorndahl wins gold in Women's Doubles Poul Holm and Tonny Ahm win gold in Mixed Doubles Date unknown Kay Werner Nielsen (DEN) and Oscar Plattner (SUI) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Births
JanuaryMarch 1 March – Birger Jensen, footballer 7 March Ulla Henningsen, actress
AprilJune 13 April Finn Tarp, economist 4 May Ole Henriksen, cosmetician and manufactur of skin care products 12 May – Jacob Groth, film score composer
JulySeptember 25 July – Frank Aaen, politician
OctoberDecember 7 November Anne Grethe Jensen, equestrian 14 November Ingeborg Maria Sick, writher and philanthropist (died 1858) 17 November Czeslaw Kozon, prelate of the Catholic Church
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 22 January Harald Bohr, mathematician (born 1887)
AprilJune 6 April – Marie-Sophie Nielsen, communist leader and founding member of the Danish Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Party of Denmark (born 1875) 14 May – Kristian Hansen Kofoed, politician (born 1879) 26 June – Gerda Henning, designer (died 1891) 28 June – Thora Daugaard, women's rights activist, pacifist, editor and translator (born 1874)
JulySeptember 19 August – Christian Geisler, organist and composer (born 1869) 23 September – Erik Arup, historian (born 1876)
OctoberDecember 13 December Birgitte Berg Nielsen, educator and activist (born 1861) 24 December Bodil Hauschildt, photographer (born 1861)
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