1942 in Denmark
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Events from the year 1942 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian X
- Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning (until 4 May), Vilhelm Buhl (until 9 November), Erik Scavenius
Events
Undated
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Births
- 13 April – Poul Anker Bech, painter (died 2009)
- 15 June – Birgitte Alsted, violinist, teacher and composer
- 27 August – Per Stig Møller, politician, writer
Deaths
- 20 March – Aksel Agerby, composer, organist, and music administrator (born 1889)
- 2 April – Peter Esben-Petersen, entomologist (born 1869)
- 3 May – Thorvald Stauning, politician, the first social democratic Prime Minister of Denmark, served as Prime Minister 1924–26 and from 1929 (born 1873)
- 23 July – Valdemar Poulsen, engineer who developed a magnetic wire recorder (born 1869)
- 24 November – Carl Christensen, systematic botanist, later superintendent at the Copenhagen Botanical Museum (born 1872)
- 12 December – Benedict Nordentoft, educator and cleric, co-founder of a Danish community with a Lutheran church and a folk high school in Solvang, California (born 1873)
