* 1950 – Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish author

* 1885 – Karen Blixen ( Isak Dinesen ), Danish author ( d. 1962 )

* 1917 – Sven Hassel, Danish soldier and author ( d. 2012 )

Two years later, she returned to her husband and children at his urging, and she went on to become a well-known Danish author, living to the age of 83.

** based on a novel by Danish author Martin Andersen Nexø

** based on the novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Danish author Peter Høeg.

Bjørn Lomborg (; born 6 January 1965 ) is a Danish author, academic, and environmental writer.

The adventures of the Cimbri are described by the Danish nobel-prize-winning author, Johannes V. Jensen, himself born in Himmerland, in the novel Cimbrernes Tog ( 1922 ), included in the epic cycle Den lange Rejse ( English The Long Journey, 1923 ).

Famous authors of works in Danish are existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, prolific fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen, and playwright Ludvig Holberg.

* Several stories written by the Danish author Karen Blixen ( or Isak Dinesen ) take place in Helsingør, including " The Supper at Elsinore " in her first published volume of stories, Seven Gothic Tales.

In a similar vein, the alf found in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author H. C. Andersen is so tiny that he can have a rose blossom for home, and has " wings that reached from his shoulders to his feet ".

Gesta Danorum (" Deeds of the Danes ") is a patriotic work of Danish history, by the 12th century author Saxo Grammaticus (" Saxo the Literate ", literally " the Grammarian ").

* 1758 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist ( d. 1841 )

* 1866 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish author and poet ( d. 1930 )

In an interview with Richardson in 1979, Danish historian Mikael Venge, author of the article about Christian II in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon said: " I think you ought to protest the next time the Swedish radio claims anything so utterly unfounded that could be understood as if the Danes approved of the Stockholm bloodbath.

Tor Nørretranders ( born June 20, 1955 ) is a Danish author of popular science.

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

* April 17 – Karen Blixen, Danish author ( d. 1962 )

* June 20 – Tor Norretranders, Danish author

* April 30 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist ( b. 1758 )

* November 16 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist ( d. 1841 )

Halldór Laxness, the Icelandic author, was present at the trial and described it in detail in his travelogue from USSR in 1937 – 8, Gerska aefintyrid ( A Russian Adventure ), published in Iceland in 1938 and in a Danish translation in 1939.

By this point the Situationist International consisted almost exclusively of the Franco-Belgian section, led by Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem, with some exceptions, such as Danish artist and author Asger Jorn.

Piet Hein ( 16 December 1905 – 17 April 1996 ) was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym " Kumbel " meaning " tombstone ".

Karen von Blixen-Finecke (), ( 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962 ), née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen.

In September of 1820, Ampère ’ s friend and eventual eulogist François Arago showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the surprising discovery of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted that a magnetic needle is deflected by an adjacent electric current.

* 1777 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist ( d. 1851 )

* 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer ( d. 1875 )

Patch's great grandfather, Hans Truval Christsen, a Danish immigrant from Copenhagen and his son Frederick Christsen had an employment policy of employing staff from the Salvation Army faith in the rum bottling process as they were less likely to be tempted to sample the spirit.

It was the aging countess who told the story of the first Danish Christmas tree to the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen in 1865.

* 1937 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company ( b. 1852 )

One of Hans Knieper ’ s heroic tapestries of Danish kings from 1585.

Kaye starred in two pictures based on biographies, Hans Christian Andersen ( 1952 ) about the Danish story-teller, and The Five Pennies ( 1959 ) about jazz pioneer Red Nichols.

* Hans Christian Andersen ( Danish, 1805 – 75 )

* Hans Christian Gram ( 1853 – 1938 ), Danish scientist who invented Gram staining

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.

* 1810 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer ( d. 1874 )

* 1598 – Hans Nansen, Danish statesman ( d. 1667 )

* 1667 – Hans Nansen, Danish statesman ( b. 1598 )

The first was begun by Danish astronomer Hans Emil Lau who, after studying the data on the orbit of Uranus from 1690 to 1895, concluded that one trans-Neptunian planet alone could not account for the discrepancies in its orbit, and postulated the position of two planets he believed were responsible.

( Translated to Danish by Hans Hagerup in 1742 as Niels Klims underjordiske Rejse.

* 1852 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company ( d. 1937 )

* December 30 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company ( b. 1852 )

* August 4 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer ( b. 1805 )

* March 20 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer ( b. 1810 )

* November 28 – Hans Nansen, Danish statesman ( d. 1667 )

* May 2 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer ( d. 1874 )

* September 10 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company ( d. 1937 )