Deaths
- 1 January – Gert Petersen, politician (b. 1927)
- 2 January – Inger Christensen, poet (b. 1935)
- 17 January – Trine Michelsen
- 21 January – Finn Kobberø, badminton player (b. 1936)
- 22 January – Jørgen Grunnet
- 23 January – Christine von Kohl
- 24 January – Palle Jacobsen, ballet dancer (b. 1940)
- 27 January – Harald Jørgensen
- 28 January – Ib Bjørn Poulsen
- 6 February – Sven Fugl
- 13 February – Lis Hartel, equestrian athlete (b. 1921)
- 15 February – Lars Okholm
- 22 February – Erik Haunstrup Clemmensen
- 9 March – Anne Just
- 21 March
- Eugén Tajmer
- Ebbe Lundgaard
- 11 April – Gerda Gilboe, actress and singer (b. 1914)
- 10 June – Helle Virkner, actress and Danish First Lady (b. 1925)
- 4 August – Svend Auken, politician (b. 1943)
- 8 September – Aage Bohr, nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
- 19 September – Willy Breinholst, writer (b. 1918)
- 2 October – Jørgen Jensen, athlete (b. 1944)
- 7 October – Poul Anker Bech, painter (b. 1942)
- 1 November – Niels Wenkens
- 13 November – Erik Stinus
- 15 November – Jesper Jensen
- 26 November – Lis Løwert, actress (b. 1919)
- 27 December – Arne Vodder, furniture designer (b. 1926)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)