← 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

Events from the year1956 in Denmark.

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

• 17 March –Finn Kobberø andJørgen Hammergaard Hansen win gold in Men's Double at theAll England Badminton Championships

• 27 Augustus - 2 September – The1956 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are held in Copenhagen.

• 2 June –BK Frem wins the1955–56 Danish Cup by defeatingAB 1–0 in the final.

• Dominique Forlini (FRA) andGeorges Senfftleben (FRA) win theSix Days of Copenhagensix-day track cycling race.
• Lucien Gillen (LUX) andGerrit Schulte (NED) win theSix Days of Copenhagensix-day track cycling race.

• 13 March –John Frandsen, composer
• 18 March –Allan Olsen, folkrock musician and singer-songwriter
• 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
• 1 November –Jens Peter Christensen, judge
• 29 November –Lene Tranberg, architect and co-founder ofLundgaard & Tranberg
• 19 December –Jens Fink-Jensen, poet, author, photographer, composer and architect
• 30 December –Jes Holtsø, actor

• Kristine Jensen, landscape architect

• 13 February –Richard Olsen, rower (born1911)
• 7 March –Johannes Gandil, athlete and footballer, competitor inathletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics, silver medallist infootball at the 1908 Summer Olympics (born1873)

• 30 April –Morten Pedersen Porsild, botanist active inGreenland (born1872)
• 17 June –Leck Fischer, writer (born1904)

• 21 July –Ejnar Nielsen, painter and illustrator, central proponent ofsymbolist painting (born1872)
• 25 July –Estrid Hein, ophthalmologist and women's rights activist (born1873)^[2]
• 31 August –Helvig Kinch, painter and illustrator (born1872)

• 30 November –Viggo Wiehe, stage and film actor (born1874)
• 5 December –Christian Christensen, track and field athlete, competitor at the1900 Summer Olympics (born1876)

• 1956 in Denmark
• 1956 by country
• Years of the 20th century in Denmark
• 1950s in Denmark
• 1956 in Europe

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