1957 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IX
• Prime minister – H. C. Hansen

  Events

• 3 March - Denmark places third in Eurovision Song Contest

  Births

• 30 March – Stig L. Andersson, landscape architect
• 28 April – Tøger Seidenfaden, journalist, editor-in-chief of Politiken
• 11 September – Preben Elkjær Larsen, footballer
• 13 December – Lars Schwander, photographer, gallerist

  Deaths

• 2 January – Søren Absalon Larsen, physicist active in the field of electroacoustics; the Larsen effect was named after him
• 14 April – Thorvald Madsen, physician and bacteriologist
• 18 April – Jens Laursøn Emborg, organist and composer
• 6 May – Ebbe Kornerup, writer and painter
• 14 May – Thit Jensen, novelist and author of short stories, plays and society critical articles
• 21 May – Jens Søndergaard, painter
• 17 June – Olaf Rude, painter
• 2 September – Peter Freuchen, explorer, writer and traveller
• 27 December – Christian Pedersen, sport shooter, competitor at the 1908 Summer Olympics

  Date unknown

• Axel Andersen Byrval, amateur football player and manager, national football team manager 1913–15 and 1917–18