Find A Grave - Hovedstaden

Andersen, Hans Christian b. April 2, 1805 d. August 4, 1875
Writer. Famous for his fairy tales. His father was a poor shoemaker and literate, who believed he was of aristocratic origin. Andersen's mother worked as washerwoman. He declined into alcoholism and died in 1833 in a charitable old people's home. Andersen's half-sister Karen Marie worked as a prostitute for some time. She contacted her famous brother only a few times before dying in 1846. Andersen received little education. As a child he was highly emotional, suffering all kinds of fears and...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Bajer, Fredrik b. April 21, 1837 d. January 22, 1922
Politician, Author. A noted pacifist, he shared the 1908 Nobel Peace Prize with Klas Pontus Arnoldson from Sweden. Born in the Danish village of Vester Egede, he entered military school at age 17 and in 1856 he joined the army as a lieutenant in the Dragoons. During the 1864 war against Prussia and Austria he commanded troops and won respect for his ability and conduct. In 1872 he entered politics and was elected to the Danish House of Representatives, where he retained his seat for the next...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Bispebjerg Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Balling, Erik b. November 29, 1924 d. November 19, 2005
Film director. Successful and popular director born at Nyborg, Denmark, who worked his way up in the film studios before making his début as a director in 1952. This was the first of his 40 feature films, one of which, "Qivitoq" from 1956, was nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best foreign language film". His most popular films were the 13 comedies about "Olsen Banden" (The Olsen Gang) from 1968 to 1981. He usually wrote or co-wrote the manuscripts for his films. He was also very active...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Gentofte Churchyard, Gentofte, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Bang, Herman b. April 20, 1857 d. January 29, 1912
Writer. He was born in Als (Denmark) and died in Ogden City (Utah). Active as an author, journalist, stage director and reader up until the time of his death. His most famous novel, Haabløse Slægter (1880, Generations Without Hope) was condemned as pornographic and the book was banned. His other books include Excentriske Noveller (Eccentric Short Stories), Stille Eksistenser (Humble Lives), Ved Vejen (By the Roadside), Stuk (Stucco) and Tine. (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Vestre Kirkegard (Western Churchyard), Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Plot: Section B, row 9, plot 8 [unmarked]
Bergstedt, Harald b. August 10, 1877 d. July 21, 1965
Poet, novelist, playwright. After working as a teacher at private and public schools he travelled round Denmark as a reciter, temperance agitator and lecturer. In 1913 he published his first collection of poems, and his first novel was published in 1918. Whereas his novels and plays are now mostly forgotten, his works of poetry are still widely read, particularly his children's songs, set to music by Carl Nielsen (q.v.). Every child, and adult, in Denmark knows these songs which are heard daily...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Bispebjerg Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Berntsen, Ole b. January 22, 1915 d. May 26, 1996
Champion Yachtsman. For more than two decades he was in the world elite in dragon class racing. At the first Olympic Games after WWII in London (1948) he won a bronze medal, and in Melbourne in 1956 he was awarded a silver. His greatest triumph came in 1964 in Tokyo when he won the gold medal. Besides his Olympic achievements he won the world championship six times and was twice the European champion. (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Hellerup Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Plot: Section 15, plot 186.
Bidstrup, Herluf b. September 10, 1912 d. December 26, 1988
Artist, Illustrator. After training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1931 to 1935, he began a career as a satirical cartoonist with the Social Democratic daily press, where his cartoons of Hitler and other Nazi leaders provoked several protests from the German embassy. During the German occupation of Denmark he supplied the underground press with anti-Nazi cartoons. In 1945 he joined the communist daily "Land og Folk" where his favourite targets became the capitalists and...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Lilleroed Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Blixen, Karen 'Isak Dinesen' b. April 17, 1885 d. September 7, 1962
Author. She wrote a number of books, the most famous are:"Seven Gothic Tales" (1934), "Winter's Tales" (1942), and "Out of Africa" (1937). The latter was the basis for the Sydney Pollack movie of the same name. Her portrait is on a Danish 50 Kroner money note (see photo) and has been on a Danish stamp twice (the only non-royal person to receive such an honor).
Cause of death: malnutrition
Blixen Estate, Rungsted, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Plot: Under a huge beech tree
Bohr, Dr. Aage Niels b. June 19, 1922 d. September 8, 2009
Nobel Prize Winning Nuclear Physicist. After helping his legendary father at the Manhattan Project, he garnered his own Nobel in 1975. Raised in Copenhagen within the confines of his father's Institute for Theoretical Physics (Later, and now, the Niels Bohr Institute), he left his studies at the University of Copenhagen and moved with his family to Sweeden, then to London, after Hitler expelled the Jews from Denmark in 1943. From thence, he travelled to Los Alamos, New Mexico, as a junior...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Mariebjerg Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Bohr, Harald b. April 22, 1887 d. January 22, 1951
Mathematician. The younger brother to the physicist Niels Bohr. Having studied at the University of Copenhagen he got his doctoral degree in 1910. His dissertation was on Dirichlet series. From 1915 to 1930 he was a professor in mathematics at the Copenhagen Polytechnics, and at the University of Copenhagen from 1930 until his death. His creation of the theory of almost periodic functions made him internationally known, as did his help to mathematicians who had to leave Germany after the Nazis...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Bohr, Niels b. October 7, 1885 d. November 18, 1962
Scientist. He was always a bright student even at a young age, and during his last two years of secondary school focused on physics and mathematics. Evidence suggests that his mathematics teacher soon realized that he didn't know the material as well as young Niels did, and that this frightened him. In his physics class the young man also would read ahead in the assigned textbooks, sometimes finding errors and mistakes in them. In 1903 he entered the University of Copenhagen, majoring in...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Boone, Richard Bently b. February 24, 1930 d. February 8, 1999
Jazz Musician. An accomplished trombone player, he joined the army playing in military bands. Having been demobilized in 1953, he moved to Los Angeles in 1958 where he played with Dexter Gordon, Sonny Criss and others. From 1961 to 1966 he toured with singer Della Reese. From 1966 to 1969 he played with Count Basie before moving to Europe and settling in Copenhagen in 1970. From 1972 to 1985 he was a member of the Danish Radio Big Band led by Bob Brookmeyer, Thad Jones and others. In 1985 he...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Plot: R-662
Borge, Victor b. January 3, 1909 d. December 23, 2000
Pianist, Symphony Conductor, Composer, Comedian, Entertainer, Actor. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the son of Bernhard and Frederikke Rosenbaum he was named Børge. Educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music he had his piano debut in 1926. He became one of Denmark's most popular artists in the 1930's and while he started his career as a classical pianist, his talent for making the audience laugh was obvious which led to his developing a unique blend of humor and music. His film debut was in...[Read More] (Bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)
Western Jewish Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Plot: *Half of cremated remains. Section 8, row D, No. 53/55
Bothwell, James Hepburn b. 1536 d. April 14, 1578
Scottish nobleman, 4th Earl of Bothwell. In 1567 Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was murdered, almost certainly by Bothwell, but he was aquitted of the crime at a mock trial. That same year he abducted the Queen and married her, and Mary created him Duke of Orkney. Soon afterwards a confederacy of nobles rose against him and he fled the country via the Shetland Isles headed for France, but he was shipwrecked in Norway where he was imprisoned. He was later transferred...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Faarevejle Church, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Bournonville, August b. August 21, 1805 d. November 30, 1879
Ballet Dancer, Choreographer. The most influential Danish choreographer of the 19th century, he was the son of Antoine Bournonville, and studied at the Royal Danish Ballet School, a pupil of his father and also of Vincenzo Galeotti. He joined the company when he was 15 and stayed from 1820 to 1823. The following year, still on salary in Copenhagen, he went to Paris to study with Vestris and joined the Paris Opera, becoming Taglioni's favorite partner. He returned to the Royal Theatre in...[Read More] (Bio by: Medora)
Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Plot: Actually buried in Asminderød
Brisson, Carl b. December 24, 1893 d. September 26, 1958
Danish-American actor, singer and entertainer, born in Copenhagen as Carl Pedersen. He began his career as a boxer and dancer before becoming a star in English and American movies during the 1920s and 1930s, a.o. "The Ring," "The Manxman," both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, "All the King's Horses," "Murder at the Vanities," "Ship Café" and "Two Hearts in Waltz Time." From 1942 a cabaret singer. Father of Fred Brisson. (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Vestre Kirkegard (Western Churchyard), Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Plot: A49
Bruhn, Erik b. October 3, 1928 d. April 1, 1986
Ballte Dancer. Trained at the Royal Danish Ballet School from 1937 and joined their company in 1947, promoted to solist in 1949. He stayed closely assoicated with the company but his frequent guesting found him mainly in the USA working with many of the big companies. At the American Ballet Theatre he was a partner of Alicia Markova and Carla Fracci with whom he developed a legendary partnership. Undoubtedly one of the greatest male dancers of the 20th century, superb in his role of Albrecht in...[Read More] (Bio by: Medora)
Mariebjerg Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Plot: Communal Urn Grave, Section E-M
Bundgaard, Poul Arne b. October 27, 1922 d. June 3, 1998
Actor. He was a versatile actor and tenor singer who appeared in operettas and musicals from his debut in 1947. From 1958 to 1973 he was engaged as an opera-singer by The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen and also as an actor 1969 to 1973 at the same theatre. Besides appearing on different private theatres he was a frequent guest on radio and television, and he performed outside Denmark in England, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Canada, and United States. He played in more than 100 Danish films, both in...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Mariebjerg Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Dam, Henrik b. February 21, 1896 d. April 17, 1976
Biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient. Born in Copenhagen, he was educated at the Technical University in Copenhagen where he was professor 1941-65. During the 1930s, while working with biochemistry and nutritional physiology he discovered and explored the vitamin K. In 1943 he and the American biochemist Edward Doisy shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine for their work on vitamin K. He lated investigated vitamin E deficiency diseases. (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Bispebjerg Cemetery, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Dinesen, Thomas Fasti b. August 9, 1892 d. March 10, 1970
World War I Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Rungsted, Demark, he served as a Private in the 42nd Infantry Battalion, Canadian Extraordinary Forces. On August 12, 1918 at Parvillers, France, Private Dinesen rushed forward alone against entrenched German troops and put hostile guns out of action. He was credited with killing 12 of the enemy using both bayonet and grenade, while inspiring his comrades at a very critical stage of the action. For gallantry in the face of the enemy, he was awarded...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Hørsholm Cemetery, Horsholm, Hovedstaden, Denmark

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