Editing Victor Borge (section)

==Death==
[[File:Victor Borge footstone 800.jpg|thumb|The [[footstone]] of Victor Borge]]
On 23 December 2000, Borge died in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], at the age of 91, after 75 years of entertaining.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1085323.stm|title=Comedian Victor Borge dies|date=24 December 2000|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=8 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802190000/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1085323.stm|archive-date=2 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.norwegianamerican.com/victor-borge-and-august-werner-exhibitions-at-nordic-heritage-museum/|title=Victor Borge and August Werner exhibitions at Nordic Heritage Museum|newspaper=The Norwegian American|date=1 December 2010|access-date=9 December 2020}}</ref> He died peacefully in his sleep a day after returning from a concert in Denmark. "It was just his time to go," Frederikke Borge said. "He's been missing my mother terribly."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00154.html | title = Celebrity Deathwatch: Victor Borge, Comic Pianist, 91 | access-date = 2 October 2010 | quote = Borge, who had not been ill, had been planning to tour Australia next week. "It was just his time to go," his daughter said. "He's been missing my mother terribly." | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110110035729/http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00154.html | archive-date = 10 January 2011 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref> (His wife had died only three months earlier.) Barely a week earlier he had recorded what would be his final televised interview with Danish television, later aired on New Year's Eve. In a poetic coincidence, when asked where he would be spending his Christmas and New Year's, Borge responded "somewhere completely different".<ref>{{YouTube|1th8w106Kok|Final TV interview, DR1, tx, 31 December 2000}}</ref>

In accordance with Borge's wishes, his connection to both the United States and Denmark was marked by having part of his ashes interred at [[Putnam Cemetery]] in Greenwich, with a replica of the iconic Danish statue ''[[The Little Mermaid (statue)|The Little Mermaid]]'' sitting on a large rock at the grave site, and the other part in [[Jewish Western Cemetery (Copenhagen)|Western Jewish Cemetery]] (''Mosaisk Vestre Begravelsesplads''), in [[Copenhagen]].<ref>{{cite news | first = Bente | last = Clausen | title = Victor Borges aske deles | date = 9 May 2001 | url = http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/219265:Kirke---tro--Victor-Borges-aske-deles | work=Kristeligt Dagblad | access-date =3 October 2010 | language = da}}</ref>