6–7 April – With two gold medals and three silver medals, Denmark finishes as the second best nation at the 5th European Badminton Championships in Dublin, Ireland.
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Graeme Gilmore (AUS) and Dieter Kemper (FRG) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Births
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January–March
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2 February – Gudrun Bojesen ballet dancer
6 February – Kasper Hvidt, handballer
10 March – Johan Wohlert, musician
April–June
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25 April – Kenneth Cortsen, sport management researcher[2]
26 June – Janus Friis, entrepreneur, co-founder of skype
July–September
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28 July – Rasmus Bjerg, actor, comedian
29 August – Jon Dahl Tomasson, football player
1 September – Heidi Albertsen, model
October–December
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13 October – Cathrine Grage, speed skater, inline skater, and cyclist
2 November – Andreas Mogensen, astronaut
14 December – Peter Gade, badminton player
Deaths
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January–march
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7 march – Tove Ditlevsen, poet and author (born 1917)
April–June
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17 April – Henrik Dam, biochemist and physiologist (born 1895)
12 May – Kaj Gottlob, architect (born 1887)
3 June – Viggo Kampmann, politician, former prime minister (born 1910)
July–September
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21 September – Nils Middelboe, football player (born 1887)
October–December
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29 December – Ingeborg Frederiksen, illustrator (born 1886)