Events from the year 1945 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch - HM Christian X
• Prime minister - German military rule (until 5 May), Vilhelm Buhl (until 7 November), Knud Kristensen

Events

• March 21 – The British Operation Carthage, an air raid targeting the local Gestapo headquarters in the Shell Building in central Copenhagen, goes wrong and 125 Danish civilians, including 80 school children, are killed.^[1]

• May 5 - The Occupation of Denmark ends with Nazi Germany's capitulation to the Allied Forces.^[2]

Undated

Births

• January 18, Kirsten Klein, photographer
• February 24 – Mikael Salomon, film director, cinematographer
• March 21 – Henrik Nordbrandt, poet
• May 10 – Morten Bo, photographer
• October 23 – Kim Larsen, singer-songwriter
• December 30 – Sanne Salomonsen, singer

Deaths

• February 21 – Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, sculptor (born 1863)
• April 30 – Gudmund Nyeland Brandt, landscape architect (born 1878)

References

See also