1961 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IX
• Prime minister – Viggo Kampmann

  Events

• 28 March – The Danish Maritime and Commercial Court is created by act.

  Births

• 28 May – Frank Jensen, politician, lord mayor of Copenhagen
• 19 November – Pernille Svarre, athlete

  Deaths

• 6 June – Frants Nielsen, sport shooter, competitor at the 1912 Summer Olympics
• 18 September – Hans Denver, sport shooter, competitor at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics
• 20 December
• * Johannes Larsen, nature painter
• * Johan Frederik Steffensen, mathematician, statistician and actuary, professor of actuarial science at the University of Copenhagen 1923–43