• Monarch – Christian IX^[1]
• Prime minister – Hugo Egmont Hørring

• 18 May – The Odsherred Railway opens.
• 21 July – The Danish Nurses' Organization is established.
• 22 November – J. P. Suhr & Søn is dissolved.^[2]

Undated edit

• The Women's Council in Denmark us established.

Art edit

• March – The annual Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition opens. Anna Ancher's A Vaccination has already prior to the opening of the exhibition been sold to a Swedish collector, a fact reported in several newspapers.^[3]

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  Amma Amcher_ A Vaccination

• 4 June – KFUMs Boldklub København is founded.

January–March edit

• 13 January – Gudrun Stig Aagaard, textile artist (died 1986)
• 30 January – Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer, textile artist (died 1986)
• 2 March – Harald Agersnap, composer, educator and musician (died 1982)
• 10 March – Finn Høffding, composer (died 1997)
• 11 March – Frederik IX, King of Denmark (died 1972)^[4]
• 19 March – Aksel Sandemose, author (died 1965)

April–June edit

• 30 April – Olaf Wieghorst, painter (died 1988)

July–September edit

• 27 July – Carl Johan Hviid, actor (died 1964)
• 2 September – Hans Jacob Nielsen, boxer (died 1967)
• 7 September – Hans Bjerrum, hockey player and businessman (died 1979)

October–December edit

• 9 October – Thorkil Kristensen, politician (died 1989)

• 17 August – Erik Bøgh, journalist, playwright and songwriter (born 1822)
• 14 September – Vilhelm Groth, painter (born 1842)
• 21 October – Edvard Jünger, precision mechanic (born 1823)
• 18 November – Hans Peter Hansen, xylographer (born 1829)
• 29 December – Vilhelm Christesen, silver smith (born 1822)