List of Famous people born in Kingdom of Denmark

Sigvard Munk

First Name Sigvard
Born on April 17, 1891
Died on April 10, 1983 (aged 91)

Sigvard Munk, was a Danish politician for the Social Democratic Party. From 1956 to 1962, he was the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen.

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Erik Scavenius

First Name Erik
Last Name Scavenius
Born on July 13, 1877
Died on November 29, 1962 (aged 85)

Erik Julius Christian Scavenius was the Danish foreign minister from 1909–1910, 1913–1920 and 1940–1943, and prime minister from 1942 to 1943, during the occupation of Denmark until the Danish elected government ceased to function. He was the foreign minister during some of the most important periods of Denmark's modern history, including the First World War, the plebiscites over the return of northern Schleswig to Denmark, and the German occupation. Scavenius was a member of the Landsting from 1918 to 1920 and from 1925 to 1927 representing the Social Liberal Party. He was chairman of its party organization from 1922 to 1924.

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Alsing Andersen

First Name Alsing
Last Name Andersen
Born on February 5, 1893
Died on December 5, 1962 (aged 69)

Alsing Emanuel Andersen was a Danish social democrat politician. Andersen served as the Minister of Defense (1935–1940) for Denmark. From 8 July 1940 to 1945, he served as the vice chairman of the Danish Social Democratic Party, and as the acting chairman of the party from the death of Thorvald Stauning until the end of the Nazi occupation of Denmark in 1945. Andersen briefly returned to national politics as the Minister of the Interior from 13 to 23 November 1947.

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Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg

First Name Ludvig
Born on July 18, 1815
Died on April 28, 1892 (aged 76)

Ludvig Henrik Carl Herman Holstein, Greve til Holsteinborg, was a Danish politician, landowner and noble. He was Council President of Denmark from 28 May 1870 to 14 July 1874 .

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Jacob Groth

First Name Jacob
Last Name Groth

Jacob Groth is a Danish film composer. He is most known for scoring the film trilogy based on Stieg Larsson's Millennium series and a number of award-winning Danish TV series as well as the CBS series Unforgettable. Among his most known works are "Would Anybody Die " from The Girl Who Played with Fire and the opening song "Forgiveness" from the DR series The Eagle, both of which have lyrics and vocals by his spouse, Misen Groth.

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Knud Kristensen

First Name Knud
Last Name Kristensen
Born on October 26, 1880
Died on September 28, 1962 (aged 81)

Knud Kristensen was Prime Minister of Denmark from 7 November 1945 to 13 November 1947 in the first elected government after the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. After the October 1945 election Knud Kristensen formed the Cabinet of Knud Kristensen, a minority government consisting only of his Liberal party (Venstre).

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William Wain Prior

First Name William
Last Name Prior
Born on July 18, 1876
Died on March 9, 1946 (aged 69)

William Wain Prior was a Danish Lieutenant general and the Chief of the Royal Danish Army from 1939 to 1941.

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Carl Christian Burmeister

First Name Carl
Last Name Burmeister
Born on January 7, 1821
Died on December 11, 1898 (aged 77)
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Henry Lorenzen

First Name Henry
Last Name Lorenzen
Born on February 8, 1899
Died on September 22, 1961 (aged 62)

Henry Lorenzen was a Danish film actor.

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Christen C. Raunkiær

First Name Christen
Last Name Raunkiær
Born on March 29, 1860
Died on March 11, 1938 (aged 77)

Christen Christensen Raunkiær was a Danish botanist, who was a pioneer of plant ecology. He is mainly remembered for his scheme of plant strategies to survive an unfavourable season and his demonstration that the relative abundance of strategies in floras largely corresponded to the Earth's climatic zones. This scheme, the Raunkiær system, is still widely used today and may be seen as a precursor of modern plant strategy schemes, e.g. J. Philip Grime's CSR system.

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