1957 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1957 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX^[1]
• Prime minister – H. C. Hansen

Events

• 3 March - Denmark places third in Eurovision Song Contest

Sports

Badminton

• 2025 March All England Badminton Championships
  • Anni Hammergaard Hansen and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Women's Doubles
• Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Mixed Doubles.

Football

• 28 April AGF wins the 1956–57 Danish Cup by defeating Esbjerg fB 20 in the final.

Date unknown

• Fritz Pfenninger (SUI) and Jean Roth (SUI) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 31 January – Henrik Dam Kristensen, politician
• 17 February Lars Brygmann, actor
• 30 March – Stig L. Andersson, landscape architect

AprilJune

• 6 April – Jesper Bank, sailor
• 28 April – Tøger Seidenfaden, journalist, editor-in-chief of Politiken (died 2011)
• 9 May – Kristian Levring, film director
• 17 May – Peter Høeg, writer of fiction

JulySeptember

• 11 September – Preben Elkjær, footballer
• 5 October – Jakob Nielsen, computer scientist
• 20 November – John Eriksen, John Eriksen (died 2002)
• 13 December – Lars Schwander, photographer, gallerist

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 2 January – Søren Absalon Larsen, physicist active in the field of electroacoustics; the Larsen effect was named after him (born 1871)

AprilJune

• 14 April – Thorvald Madsen, physician and bacteriologist (born 1870)
• 18 April – Jens Laursøn Emborg, organist and composer (born 1876)
• 6 May – Ebbe Kornerup, writer and painter (born 1874)
• 14 May – Thit Jensen, novelist and author of short stories, plays and society critical articles (born 1876)
• 21 May – Jens Søndergaard, painter (born 1895)
• 26 May Peter Bang, engineer (born 1900)
• 9 June – Aksel Jørgensen, painter and wood engraver (born 1883)
• 17 June – Olaf Rude, painter (born 1886)

JulySeptember

• 5 July Magdalene Lauridsen, educator (born 1873)
• 2 September – Peter Freuchen, explorer, writer and traveller (born 1886)

Date unknown

• Axel Andersen Byrval, amateur football player and manager, national football team manager 1913–15 and 1917–18 (born 1875)

See also

• 1957 in Danish television

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frederick IX: king of Denmark. Encyclopedia Britannica. 16 June 2019. en.