1982 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Margrethe II
• Prime minister - Anker Jørgensen (until September 10, Poul Schlüter

  Events

• January 5 - 17 years old Curt Hansen wins the European Junior Chess Championship
• January 8 - A Danish cold record is set when a temperature of -31.2 is registered in Hørsted, a village in the Thy region of northern Jytland.
• September 10 - Poul Schlüter becomes prime minister

  Undated

Sports

Badminton

• April 13-18 — With 2 gold medals and five bronze medals, Denmark finishes as the second best nation at the 8th European Badminton Championships in Böblingen, West Germany.
• Gentofte BK wins Europe Cup.

  Births

• 2 March – Pilou Asbæk, actor
• 15 April – Henriette Engel Hansen, sprint canoeist
• 14 May – Anders Eggert, handball player

  Deaths

• 12 January – Emil Hass Christensen, actor
• 16 January – Harald Agersnap, composer, educator and musician
• 24 April – Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen, actress
• 1 June – Einar Juhl, film actor
• 15 June - Erling Foss, engineer and businessman
• 21 December - Frants Hvass, diplomat