1980 in Denmark

Events from the year 1980 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Margrethe II
 * Prime minister – Anker Jørgensen

Sports

 * July 19 – July 3 &mdash; Denmark at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow: 2 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 2 bronze medals.

Badminton

 * 23 March – Lene Køppen wins gold in women's single at the 1980 All England Open Badminton Championships.
 * 27 May – 1 June – Denmark wins four bronze medals at the 1980 IBF World Championships.
 * 17–20 April &mdash; With two gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze medals, Denmark finishes as the best nation at the 7th European Badminton Championships in Groningen, Netherlands.
 * Hvidovre BK wins silver at Europe Cup.

Cycling

 * Albert Fritz (FRG) and Patrick Sercu (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

January–February

 * 1 January – Karina Jacobsgaard, tennis player
 * 16 January – Lars Bak, bicycle racer
 * 29 January – Peter Løvenkrands, footballer
 * 1 February – Ellen Trane Nørby, politician
 * 17 February – Eva Dyrberg, former tennis player
 * 28 February – Christian Poulsen, football player

March–June

 * 21 March – Marit Bjørgen, cross-country skier
 * 28 March – Rasmus Seebach, singer
 * 31 March – Martin Albrechtsen, footballer
 * 5 April – Rasmus Quist Hansen, rower
 * 12 April – Peter Plaugborg, actor
 * 5 May – Martin Retov, football coach and former player
 * 30 June – Morten Skoubo, footballer

July–September

 * 11 July – Mathias Boe, badminton player
 * 11 August – Jerry Lucena, Danish-Filipino footballer
 * 17 August – Christian Keller, footballer
 * 7 September – Rikke Skov, handball player
 * 30 September – Jakob Michelsen, football manager

October–December

 * 8 October – Kasper Bøgelund, footballer
 * 23 October – Jesper Nøddesbo, handballer
 * 25 October – Ditte Jensen, freestyle swimmer
 * 28 October – Agnes Obel, musician
 * 2 November – Thomas Bredahl, guitarist
 * 13 November – Morten Messerschmidt, politician

Deaths

 * 18 April – Poul Kjærholm, furniture designer (born 1929)
 * 3 September – Dirch Passer, actor (born 1926)
 * 6 September – Gustav Weinreich, woodcarver and furniture maker (born 1886)
 * 13 December – Svend Olsen, weightlifter (born 1908)