• Monarch – Frederick VIII^[1]
• Prime minister – J. C. Christensen

Music edit

• 30 November – Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 4 is for the first time performed in public in the Odd Fellows Mansion.

• Dansk Motor Klub is founded.^[2]

January–March edit

• 4 February – Gwili Andre, model and actress (died 1959)

March–July edit

• 4 July – Henning Holck-Larsen, engineer, co-founder of Indian engineering company Larsen & Toubro (died 2003)

October–December edit

• 21 October – Nina Stroganova, a prima ballerina (died in New York, 1994)
• 4 November – Henry Heerup, painter, sculptor (died 1993)
• 12 December – Svend Olufsen, engineer and company founder (died 1949)

January–March edit

• 16 January – Frederik Georg Emil Rostrup (born 1831)
• 24 January – Vilhelm Dahlerup, architect (born 1836)
• 17 February – Axel Helsted, painter (died 1847)

April–June edit

• 10 April – Emilie West, educator (born 1844)
• 28 May – Valdemar Tofte, violinist (born 1832)

October–December edit

• 14 November – August Ferdinand Michael van Mehren, philologist (died 1822)
• 22 November – Ditlev Torm, businessman (born 1836)
• 25 November – Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, arctic explorer, author and ethnologist (born 1872)