1960 in Denmark

• Monarch – Frederik IX^[1]
• Prime minister – H. C. Hansen (until 19 February), Viggo Kampmann

• 15 November – The 1960 parliamentary election is held.
• 28 November – The Danish Academy is founded.^[2]

• 19–23 March – All England Badminton Championships
  • Erland Kops wins gold in Men's Single
  • Erland Kops and Poul-Erik Nielsen win gold in Men's Doubles
  • Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold medal in Mixed Doubles.

• Emile Severeyns (BEL) and Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

• 14 January – Per Fly, film director

Ø 25 February – Joakim Garff, theologian and Søren Kierkegaard researcher

• 15 April – Susanne Bier, film director
• 11 May – Jesper Asholt, actor

• 6 July – Liselotte Plesner, civil servant and ambasador
• 8 July – Susanne Nielsson, breaststroke swimmer
• 3 August – Kim Milton Nielsen, football referee
• 10 August – Lone Gram, microbiologist
• 19 August – Morten Andersen, American-football player
• 24 August – Kim Christofte, footballer
• 15 September – Connie Hedegaard, politician and public intellectual

• 29 October – Jens Winther, jazz trumpeter (died 2011)
• 2 December – Anders Hejlsberg, software engineer