1909 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VIII
• Prime minister – Niels Neergaard, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Carl Theodor Zahle

  Events

• 20 April – Women are given the right to vote in municipal elections. General women's suffrage is not introduced in Denmark until 1915.

  Births

• 3 January – Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, conductor and pianist
• 20 December – Vagn Holmboe, composer

  Deaths

• 27 April – Hugo Egmont Hørring, politician, prime minister of Denmark
• 7 May – Joachim Andersen, flutist, conductor and composer
• 0 July – Johannes Forchhammer, philologist
• 13 October – Janus la Cour, painter
• 21 November – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-born painter
• 29/30 December – Carl Emil Krarup, telegraph engineer, mainly known for the invention of the Krarup cable, a kind of loaded cable