1936 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

  Events

• 1–16 August – Denmark participates in the 1936 Summer Olympics and wins five medals.
• 22 September – The 1936 Landsting elections are held.

  Undated

• The political party Danish Unity is established.
• The Viborg Handball Club is established.

  Births

• 13 March – Finn Kobberø, badminton player
• 28 April – John Tchicai, jazz musician and composer
• 30 June – Flemming Flindt, ballet dancer and choreographer
• 17 September – Jan Gehl, architect, urban planner
• 1 November – Mimi Heinrich, actress and writer
• 30 November – Knud Enemark Jensen, racing cyclist

  Deaths

• 22 January – Louis Glass, composer
• 22 February – Johan Skjoldborg, novelist, playwright and memoirist
• 23 April – Thomas Bærentzen, sculptor
• 3 August – Carl William Hansen, author, Luciferian, wandering bishop and occultist
• 9 October – Carl Peter Hermann Christensen, Denmark's last executioner