1960 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IX
• Prime minister – H. C. Hansen, Viggo Kampmann

  Events

• 15 November – The 1960 parliamentary election is held.
• 28 November – The Danish Academy is founded.

  Undated

Births

• 15 April – Susanne Bier, film director
• 8 July – Susanne Nielsson, breaststroke swimmer
• 29 October – Jens Winther, jazz trumpeter

  Deaths

• 21 January – Launy Grøndahl, composer and conductor
• 27 January – Gudmund Hatt, archaeologist and cultural geographer
• 19 February – H. C. Hansen, politician and Prime Minister 1955–60
• 27 March – Holger Jacobsen, architect
• 18 April – C. L. David, lawyer, art collector and philanthropist
• 24 June – Harald Moltke, nobleman, painter and author
• 16 August – Christine Swane, painter associated with the "Funen Painters"
• 26 August – Knud Enemark Jensen, racing cyclist
• 1 September – Knud Heglund, actor
• 11 December – Svend Rindom, writer and actor
• 12 December – Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen, sculptor and ceramist, model master of Bing & Grøndahl 1897–1917, artistic director of Norden 1917–1925