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List of events
Events from the year 1873 in Denmark.
Banquet for the Japanese diplomatic mission in the Børsen Building
17 October: The foundation stone is set for the new Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.
- 9 January – Hans Frederick Blichfeldt, Danish-American mathematician (died 1945)
- 17 January – Benedict Nordentoft, educator and cleric, co-founder of a Danish community with a Lutheran church and a folk high school in Solvang, California (died 1942)
- 20 January – Johannes V. Jensen, author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 (died 1950)
- 21 January – Emilie Demant Hatt, artist, writer and ethnographer (died 1958)
- 2 February – Sophus Wangøe, cinematographer (died 1943)
- 5 February – William Thalbitzer, philologist, professor of Eskimo studies at the University of Copenhagen (died 1958)
- 12 February – Gustav Bartholin Hagen, architect (died in 1941)
- 28 February – Johan Frederik Steffensen, mathematician, statistician and actuary, professor of actuarial science at the University of Copenhagen 1923–1943 (died 1961)
- 14 March – Herluf Zahle, barrister with the Supreme Court, career diplomat, President of the League of Nations 1928–1929 (died 1941)
- 19 March – Betty Nansen, actress and theatre director (died 1943)
- 7 April
- 25 April – Magdalene Lauridsen, educator (died 1957)
- 10 May – Palle Bruun, hydraulic engineer, designed the Port of Skagen (died 1910)
- 21 May – Johannes Gandil, athlete (sprinter) and footballer, competitor in the 100 metre event at the 1900 Summer Olympics, silver medalist in football at the 1908 Summer Olympics (died 1956)
- 27 May – Harald Scavenius, diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1920–1922 (died 1939)
- 30 May – Oluf Olsson, gymnast, silver medalist at the 1906 Intercalated Games, bronze medalist in the team free system event at the 1912 Summer Olympics (died 1947)
- 3 November – John Christmas. naval officer, plantation owner and acting Governor-General of the Danish West Indies (born 1799)
- 7 November – Thomas Overskou, actor, playwright and historian (born 1798)
- 25 November – Hans Harder, painter and drawing master (born 1792)