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HOW IT WORKS
1956 in Denmark
Summary
Events from the year
1956 in Denmark
.
←
1955
1954
1953
1956
in
Denmark
→
1957
1958
1959
Decades:
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
See also:
Other events of 1956
List of years in Denmark
Incumbents
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Monarch –
Frederik IX
[1]
Prime minister –
H. C. Hansen
Events
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Sports
edit
Badminton
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17 March –
Finn Kobberø
and
Jørgen Hammergaard Hansen
win gold in Men's Double at the
All England Badminton Championships
Cycling
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27 Augustus - 2 September – The
1956 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
are held in Copenhagen.
Football
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2 June –
BK Frem
wins the
1955–56 Danish Cup
by defeating
AB
1–0 in the final.
Date unknown
edit
Dominique Forlini
(FRA) and
Georges Senfftleben
(FRA) win the
Six Days of Copenhagen
six-day track cycling race
.
Lucien Gillen
(LUX) and
Gerrit Schulte
(NED) win the
Six Days of Copenhagen
six-day track cycling race
.
Births
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13 March –
John Frandsen
, composer
18 March –
Allan Olsen
, Musical artist
8 April –
Peter Aalbæk Jensen
, film producer
30 April –
Lars von Trier
, director and screenwriter
19 May –
Susanne Augustesen
, football player
30 September –
Frank Arnesen
, football player and manager
29 November –
Lene Tranberg
, architect and co-founder of
Lundgaard & Tranberg
19 December –
Jens Fink-Jensen
, poet, author, photographer, composer and architect
30 December –
Jes Holtsø
, actor
Date unknown
edit
Kristine Jensen
, landscape architect
Deaths
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January–March
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13 February –
Richard Olsen
, rower (born
1911
)
7 March –
Johannes Gandil
, athlete and footballer, competitor in
athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics
, silver medallist in
football at the 1908 Summer Olympics
(born
1873
)
April–June
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30 April –
Morten Pedersen Porsild
, botanist active in
Greenland
(born
1872
)
17 June –
Leck Fischer
, writer (born
1904
)
July–September
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21 July –
Ejnar Nielsen
, painter and illustrator, central proponent of
symbolist
painting (born
1872
)
25 July –
Estrid Hein
, ophthalmologist and women's rights activist (born
1873
)
[2]
31 August –
Helvig Kinch
, painter and illustrator (born
1872
)
October–December
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30 November –
Viggo Wiehe
, stage and film actor (born
1874
)
5 December –
Christian Christensen
, track and field athlete, competitor at the
1900 Summer Olympics
(born
1876
)
References
edit
^
"Frederick IX | king of Denmark".
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
16 June
2019
.
^
"Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Estrid Hein".
www.kvinfo.dk
. 15 May 2003
. Retrieved
3 December
2019
.