1947 in Denmark

Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;
See also:	Other events of 1947; List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1947 in Denmark.

Incumbents

20 April – King Christian X dies, and is succeeded on the throne by his elder son, King Frederik IX.^[1]
13 November – Prime Minister Knud Kristensen resigns following a motion of no confidence, and is replaced by Hans Hedtoft.^[2]

Ab wins 1946–47 Danish 1st Division. It is their sixth Danish football championship.

10–14 September – Denmark wins five gold medals and one bronze medal at the 1947 European Aquatics Championships.

28 May – Hanna Adler, educator (born 1759)
10 January – August Blom, film director, production leader and pioneer of silent films (born 1869)
15 January – Georg Carl Amdrup, admiral, polar explorer (born 1866)

20 April – Christian X, King of Denmark (born 1870)^[3]
29 April – Ove Paulsen, botanist, professor at the Pharmaceutical College in Copenhagen 1920–1947 (born 1874)
4 May – Cathrine Horsbøl, furnituremaker (born 1872)
3 June – Sigurd Wandel, painter (born 1875)
18 June – Ejnar Martin Kjær, teacher and politician (born 1893)
25 June – Oluf Olsson, gymnast, silver medallist at the 1906 Intercalated Games, bronze medallist at the 1912 Summer Olympics (born 1873)

^ ^a ^b "Frederick IX | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
^ ^a ^b Lentz, Harris M. (2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 221. ISBN 9781134264902.
^ "Christian X | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 June 2019.