* 1972 – Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish screenwriter and director

* 1956 – Lars von Trier, Danish director

* 1918 – Gabriel Axel, Danish director

Bille August ( born 9 November 1948 ) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director.

In 2009, Danish director Sebastian S. Cordes shot a 75-minute documentary called The Life and Times of Don Rosa, consisting of exclusive interviews with Rosa himself on his farm near Louisville, Kentucky.

* 1886 – Jean Hersholt, Danish director and actor ( d. 1956 )

* 1973 – Laurits Munch-Petersen, Danish director

Lars von Trier (; born Lars Trier ; 30 April 1956 ) is a Danish film director and screenwriter.

All main characters in the film are based on real people from the Danish film industry, with the thinly veiled portrayals including Jens Albinus as director Nils Malmros, Dejan Čukić as screenwriter Mogens Rukov and Søren Pilmark in an especially unflattering portrayal as sex-obsessed school principal Henning Camre.

* 1959 – Ole Bornedal, Danish actor, director, and producer

* 1948 – Bille August, Danish film and television director

* 2005 – Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director ( b. 1924 )

It also inspired several films, including Hammer's The Vampire Lovers ( 1970 ), Roger Vadim's Blood and Roses ( 1960 ), Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr ( 1932 ) and Harry Kümel's Daughters of Darkness in 1971.

Thomas Vinterberg ( born 19 May 1969 ) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production.

** Gabriel Axel, Danish film director

** Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director ( b. 1889 )

* April 15 – Susanne Bier, Danish film director

* April 30 – Lars von Trier, Danish film director

* July 17 – Henri Nathansen, Danish writer and stage director ( d. 1944 )

* Tango ( 1933 film ), a film by Danish director George Schnéevoigt

In 1979, Danish director Lars von Trier made the short movie entitled Menthe — la bienheureuse, as an homage to Story of O.

Erik Balling ( 29 November 1924 – 19 November 2005 ) was a Danish TV and film director.

In 1916, he took a post teaching at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and continued to work there until his death, in his last year as director of the institute.

* Lonnie Burr, American actor, dancer / choreographer, singer, director and author of Danish, French, Scots-Irish and German descent, best known for having been a star on the original Mickey Mouse Club television show from 1955 to 1959

The Sermon On the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter, d. 1890.

The Løgting gained legislative powers, with the Danish prefect Carl Aage Hilbert retaining executive power.

* 1702 – Carl August Thielo, Danish composer ( d. 1763 )

The method is named after its inventor, the Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram ( 1850 – 1938 ), who developed the technique while working with Carl Friedländer in the morgue of the city hospital in Berlin.

* 1842 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer ( d. 1914 )

* 1834 – Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter ( d. 1890 )

* 1881 – Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor ( d. 1942 )

Danish composer Carl Nielsen composed " Pan and Syrinx " ( Pan og Syrinx ), Op.

* October 3 – Carl Nielsen, Danish composer ( b. 1865 )

* October 19 – Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist ( born 1829 )

* June 9 – Carl Nielsen, Danish composer ( d. 1931 )

* May 9 – Carl Brosbøll, Danish author ( b. 1816 )

* February 21 – Carl Peter Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1976 )

* March 19 – Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist ( d. 1901 )

* March 2 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named ( d. 1914 )

* May 23 – Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish sculptor ( d. 1890 )

A Danish engineer, Carl Emil Krarup, invented a form of continuously loaded cable which solved these problems and the cable is named for him.

His 37-year rule, the longest of a mature Swedish king so far ( subsequently passed by Gustav V and current Carl XVI Gustav ) saw a complete break with not only the Danish supremacy of the Union but also the Roman Catholic Church, whose assets were nationalised, with the Lutheran Church of Sweden established under his personal control.

The Øresund Bridge ( which includes a 3 km tunnel ) between Danish capital Copenhagen and the largest city of Scania, Malmö was inaugurated on 1 July 2000 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Prince Carl was raised in the royal household in Copenhagen and educated at the Royal Danish Naval Academy.

Henrik Dam ( Full name Carl Peter Henrik Dam ) ( February 21, 1895 – April 17, 1976 ) was a Danish biochemist and physiologist.

* Singer, Kurt: Carl von Ossietzky: Fredshelten i Koncentrationslejren ( 1937 ) ( online text, in Danish )