1959 in Denmark

Incumbents

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

  Events

Undated

Births

• 2 May – Lone Scherfig, film director

  Deaths

• 12 January – Edvard Eriksen, sculptor, creator of the Little Mermaid statue
• 13 April – Dagmar Hansen, cabaret singer and stage performer, Denmark's first pin-up girl
• 21 April – Hakon Andersen, organist and composer
• 2 September – Sigvart Werner, amateur photographer famous for his artistic landscape photographs