← 1954 1953 1952 1955 in Denmark → 1956 1957 1958
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1955 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1955 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX^[1]
• Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft (until 29 January), H. C. Hansen

Events

Sports

Badminton

• 23–26 March – All England Badminton Championships
  • Finn Kobberø and Jørgen Hammergaard Hansen win gold in Men's Doubles
  • Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Mixed Doubles

Football

• 9 June – AGF wins the 1954–55 Danish Cup by defeating Aalborg Chang 4–0 in the final.

Date unknown

• Evan Klamer (DEN) and Kay Werner Nielsen (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

• 1 January – Ole Beich, musician
• 20 June – Tor Nørretranders, writer
• 11 July – Søren Sætter-Lassen, actor
• 31 July – Lars Bastrup, footballer
• 26 August
  • Heidi Ryom, dancer (died 2013)^[2][3]
  • Monica Ritterband, artist and journalist
• 16 October – Søren Pilmark, actor
• 15 November – Michael Kvium, painter
• 30 December – Sanne Salomonsen, singer

Deaths

January–March

• 26 January – Holger Nielsenm fencer (born 1866)
• 17 February – Johannes Bjerg, sculptor (born 1886)
• 17 March – Gunnar Asgeir Sadolin, businessman (born 1874)

April–June

• 27 June – Martin A. Hansen, writer (born 1909)

July–September

• 15 July – Einar Utzon-Frank, sculptor (born 1888)
• 31 July – Sophy A. Christensen, furnituremaker (born 1867)
• 24 September – Jonathan Leunbach, doctor (born 1884)

October–December

• 12 December – Esther Carstensen, women's rights activist and journal editor (born 1873)^[4]