1946 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Knud Kristensen

  Events

• 30 August – Princess Anne-Marie, future Queen of Greece, is born to Crown Prince Frederick and Crown Princess Ingrid of Sweden.

  Births

• 9 January – Mogens Lykketoft, politician
• 15 March – Krass Clement, photographer
• 19 March – Dan Turèll, writer
• 27 May – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, jazz bassist
• 2 June – Inga Nielsen, opera singer
• 30 August – Princess Anne-Marie, future Queen of Greece
• 27 October – Peter Martins, ballet dancer, choreographer

  Deaths

• 3 February – Carl Theodor Zahle, politician, Council President of Denmark
• 9 March – William Wain Prior, major-general, commander-in-chief of the Royal Danish Army 1939–41
• 26 March – Gerhard Heilmann, paleontologist, scientific illustrator
• 26 April – Oluf Ring, composer
• 20 May – Jacob Ellehammer, inventor
• 26 May – Petrine Sonne, stage and film actress
• 13 July – Valdemar Rørdam, national conservative poet, author of "Denmark in a Thousand Years"
• 31 August – Paul von Klenau, composer and conductor
• 10 October – Eyvind Johan-Svendsen, stage and film actor
• 15 December – Johannes Friis-Skotte, politician, Minister of Public Works 1924–1926 and 1929–1935

  Date unknown

• Johanne Agerskov, intermediary