His wife Marietta died on 2 October 1978.[16] In 1981, he married Bente Scharff Meyer.[33] His son, Tomas Bohr, is a Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark, working in the area of fluid dynamics.[34] Aage Bohr died in Copenhagen on 9 September 2009.[27] He was survived by his second wife and children.[33]