1945 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime Minister –
• * until 5 May: German military rule
• * 5 May-7 November Vilhelm Buhl
• * starting 7 November: Knud Kristensen

  Events

• 21 March – The British Operation Carthage, an air raid targeting the local Gestapo headquarters in the Shell Building in central Copenhagen, goes wrong and 125 Danish civilians, including 80 school children, are killed.
• 5 May – The occupation of Denmark ends with Nazi Germany's capitulation to the Allied Forces.
• 12 December - The David Foundation and Collections is founded as an independent institution by C. L. David with his art collection on public display at the top floor of his home in Kronprinsessegade in Copenhagen as the focal point of its activity.

  Births

• 18 January – Kirsten Klein, photographer
• 24 February – Mikael Salomon, film director, cinematographer
• 21 March – Henrik Nordbrandt, poet
• 10 May – Morten Bo, photographer
• 23 October – Kim Larsen, singer-songwriter

  Deaths

• 15 January - Holger Damgaard, photographer
• 21 February – Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, sculptor
• 5 March – Albrecht Schmidt, film actor
• 30 April – Gudmund Nyeland Brandt, landscape architect
• 10 September – Otto Scavenius, diplomat, Foreign Minister for one day during the Easter Crisis of 1920
• 17 November
• *Elna Munch, feminist, suffragist and politician, one of the three first women to be elected to the Danish parliament in 1918
• * Jens Olsen, clockmaker, locksmith and astromechanic, constructor of the World Clock in Copenhagen City Hall