• Monarch - Christian X^[1]
• Prime minister - Niels Neergaard

• 13 July – Niels Hansen Jacobsen's Troll Fountain is inaugurated in Vejen.^[2]

Undated edit

• Frem wins their first Danish football championship by defeating Aarhus Gymnastikforening 2–1 in the final of the 1922–23 Danish National Football Tournament.

• 2 January – Poul Volther, furniture designer (d. 2001)
• 2 March – Rasmus Nellemannm painter and graphic artist (died 2004)
• 9 May – Jørgen Rømer, painter (died 2007)
• 20 June – Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, actor (d. 1998)
• 3 August – Aage Larsen, rower (died 2016)
• 11 August – Ellen Winther, opera singer (died 2011)
• 6 October – Nanna Ditzel, designer (died 2005)

January–March edit

• 4 January – Anders Andersen-Lundby, painter (born 1841)
• 7 February – Kristine Marie Jensen, cookbook writer (b. 1858)
• 26 March – Olaf Poulsen, comedic stage actor (b. 1849)

April–June edit

• 3 May – Carl Ryder, Arctic explorer and naval officer (b. 1858)

July–September edit

• 13 July – Asger Hamerik, composer (b. 1843)

October–December edit

• 27 November – Tage Reedtz-Thott, politician, prime minister of Denmark (b. 1839)
• 21 December – Knud Rasmussen, polar explorer, anthropologist (b. 1879)