1957 in Denmark

← 1956 1955 1954 1957 in Denmark → 1958 1959 1960
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1957 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1957 in Denmark.

Incumbents[]

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

Events[]

• 3 March - Denmark places third in Eurovision Song Contest

Births[]

• 30 March – Stig L. Andersson, landscape architect
• 28 April – Tøger Seidenfaden, journalist, editor-in-chief of Politiken (died 2011)
• 11 September – Preben Elkjær, footballer
• 13 December – Lars Schwander, photographer, gallerist

Deaths[]

• 2 January – Søren Absalon Larsen, physicist active in the field of electroacoustics; the Larsen effect was named after him (born 1871)
• 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)
• 17 June – Olaf Rude, painter (born 1886)
• 2 September – Peter Freuchen, explorer, writer and traveller (born 1886)
• 27 December – Christian Pedersen, sport shooter, competitor at the 1908 Summer Olympics (born 1874)

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

References[]