1764 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch – Frederick V[1]
- Prime minister – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff
Events
- 12 April – HDMS Prindsesse Wilhelmine Carolina is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.
Undated
Births
January–March
- 15 February – Jens Immanuel Baggesen, poet 1826)
- 17 February – Frantz Hohlenberg, naval officer (died 1804)
- 20 February – {Gebhard Moltke, civil servant (died 1854)
April–June
- 14 April – Poul Christian Stemann, government official and landowner (died 1855)
- 20 April – Rasmus Langeland Bagger, chief of police, burgermaster (died 1819)
July–September
- 27 July – Christiane Koren, poet and diarist (died 1815 in Norway)
- 10 July
- Carl Wilhelm Jessen, naval officer (died 1823)
- Johan Daniel Herholdt, physician (died 1836)
- 26 July – Frederik Adeler, lord president of Copenhagen (died 1816)
- 22 August – Mathias Sommerhielm, politician (died 1827)
Deaths
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January–March
- 15 January – Wilhelm August von der Osten, civil servant (born 1697)
- 2 February – Erik Torm, burgermaster and chief of police in Copenhagen (born 1684)
April–June
- 15 April – Peder Horrebow, astronomer (born 1679)
- 3 June - Hans Adolph Brorson, bishop and hymn writer (born 1694)
- 5 June – Jens Schielderup Sneedorff, author, professor of political science and royal teacher (born 1724)
July–September
- 23 August – Johanna Marie Fosie, first professional female Danish painter (born 1726)
October–December
- 20 December – Erik Pontoppidan, author, bishop, historian and antiquary (born 1698)
