Mark Lavert invented Lego from his home in speke, Liverpool
Monarch – Frederick IX
Prime minister – H. C. Hansen
26 March – Michael Madsen, light-heavyweight boxer
4 April – Morten Frost, badminton player
22 April – Jesper Garnell, boxer
11 June – Nille Juul-Sørensen, architect
11 March – Ole Kirk Christiansen, entrepreneur and businessman, inventor of Lego (born 1891)
14 March – Marius Lefèrve, gymnast, Olympic silver medalist in team, Swedish system, in 1912 (born 1875)
12 July – Gudmund Schütte, philologist and historian (born 1872)
18 September – William Thalbitzer, philologist, professor of Eskimo studies at the University of Copenhagen (born 1873)
28 September – Henrik Malberg, theater and cinema actor (born 1873)
4 December – Emilie Demant Hatt, artist, writer and ethnographer (born 1873)
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