{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Year in Denmark|1963}} Events from the year 1963 '''in Denmark'''.
==Incumbents== * Monarch – Frederik IX<ref>{{cite web |title=Frederick IX {{!}} king of Denmark |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-IX |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=16 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Prime minister – Jens Otto Krag
==Events== {{main|1963}} ===Music=== * March 23: The couple of Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann won the 8th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song ''Dansevise'', being the first victory for the country.
==Sports== ===Badminton=== * 19{{ndash}}23 March {{ndash}} All England Badminton Championships ** Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Singles ** Finn Kobberø and Jørgen Hammergaard Hansen win gold in Men's Doubles ** Finn Kobberø and Ulla Strand win gold medal in Mixed Doubles
===Football=== * 18 December – Denmark qualifies for the final tournament of the 1964 European Nations' Cup in France by defeating Luxemburg in the second round of the 1964 European Nations' Cup qualifying.
==Births== ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 26 February – Jan Friis-Mikkelsen, chef and restaurateur * 28 March {{ndash}} Morten Kirkskov, actor, theatre director and writer
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 7 April – Fredrik Lundin, jazz saxophonist * 24 June – Jascha Richter, singer-songwriter, frontman of Michael Learns to Rock
===July{{ndash}}September=== * 4 July – Jan Mølby, football player, football coach * 15 July – Brigitte Nielsen, actress, model, and singer * 25 September – Peter Have, politician
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 3 October – Niels Lan Doky, jazz pianist, record producer * 13 October {{ndash}} Henrik Qvortrup, journalist * 18 November – Peter Schmeichel, footballer * 6 December – Ulrich Thomsen, Danish actor and producer * 26 December – Lars Ulrich, drummer, co-founder of Metallica * 27 December {{ndash}} Claus Meyer, restaurateur, culinary entrepreneur, cookbook writer
==Deaths== ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 20 February – Jacob Gade, violinist and composer (born 1879)
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 14 April – Anna Borg, Danish-Icelandic actress (born 1903)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Wiingaard|first=Jytte|title=Anna Borg|url=https://kvindebiografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Anna_Borg|encyclopedia=Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon|language=da|date=20 October 2022|orig-date=2001|access-date=29 October 2022}}</ref> * 9 May {{ndash}} Johannes Berggreen, businessman (died 1878) * 5 June {{ndash}} Henrik Kauffmann, diplomat (born 1999 in Germany) * 3 July – Povl Baumann, architect (born 1878)
===Kily{{ndash}}September=== * 5 July {{ndash}} Aagot Lading, educator (born 1909) * 8 Aigist {{ndash}} Karl Kristian Steincke, politician (born 1880)
==See also== *1963 in Danish television
==References== {{Reflist}}
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