1990 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Margrethe II
• Prime minister - Poul Schlüter

  Events

• 2 February - After four years of occupation, squatters are evicted from the Black Horse, a former roadside inn from 1771, today the oldest building in Vesterbro, Copenhagen.

  Undated

The arts

Film

• 26 March — At the 62nd Academy Awards, Kaspar Rostrup's Waltzing Regitze is among the five films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film but the Oscar goes to the Italian Cinema Paradiso.

  Literature

Music

Sports

Badminton

• 8-14 April — With five gold medals, one silver medal and three bronze medals, Denmark finishes as the best nation at the 12th European Badminton Championships in Moscow, Soviet Union.

  Cycling

• 14 October - Rolf Sørensen wins 1990 Paris–Tours.

  Births

• 14 March – Şaban Özdoğan, footballer
• 23 April – Mathias "Zanka" Jørgensen, football player
• 1 June – Kennie Chopart, footballer
• 11 July – Caroline Wozniacki, tennis player
• 22 September – Peter Ankersen, footballer

  Deaths

• 19 June - Steen Eiler Rasmussen, architect and writer