1934 in Denmark
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Events from the year 1934 in Denmark.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch – Christian X[1]
- Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning
Events
[edit]- 15 January – The artist group Linien opens their first exhibition in Copenhagen, presenting 177 works of abstract-surrealist art.[2]
Sports
[edit]Cycling
[edit]- Willy Funda (GER) and Hans Pützfeld (GER) wins the first Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Football
[edit]- B 93 wins their fifth Danish football championship by winning the 1933–34 Danish Championship League.
Swimming
[edit]- 12–19 August Denmark wins four bronze medal at the 1934 European Aquatics Championships.
Births
[edit]- 24 February – Flemming Nielsen, football player (died 2018)
- 14 March – Mogens Palle, boxing manager (died 2022)
- 11 June – Prince Henrik (died 2018)
- 29 June – Henning Kronstam, ballet dancer, ballet master, theatre director (died 1995)
- 15 October – Poul Borum, writer (died 1996)
- 9 December – Morten Grunwald, actor (died 2018)
Deaths
[edit]- 22 January – Frida Schmidt, suffragist (born 1849)
- 14 February – Frederik Jensen, stage and film actor (born 1863)
- 4 March – Matilde Bajer, women's rights activist and pacifist (born 1840)[3]
- 9 July – Johanne Bindesbøll, textile artist (born 1834)
- 17 August – Georges Dreyer, pathologist, professor of pathology at the University of Oxford 1907–1934 (born 1863)
- 8 September – Hans Munch-Petersen, scholar (born 1869)
References
[edit]- ^ "Christian X | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ "Linien", KunstOnLine.dk. (in Danish) Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ "Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Matilde Bajer". www.kvinfo.dk. 15 May 2003. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
