1990 in Denmark

Events from the year 1990 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Margrethe II
• Prime minister – Poul Schlüter

Events

• 2 February – Squatters are evicted from the Black Horse, a former roadside inn, on Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen after four years.

The arts

• 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.

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.
• 24 28 March 1990 Denmark Open
• Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen wins gold in men's single by defeating Morten Frost in the final
• Lotte Olsen and Dorte Kjær win gold in women's double by defeating Gillian Gowers and Gillian Clark in the final.
• Thomas Lund and Pernille Dupont win gold in mixed double by defeating Henrik Svarrer and Marlene Thomsen in the final.

Cycling

• 24 March – Søren Lilholt wins 1990 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen.
• 14 October – Rolf Sørensen wins 1990 Paris–Tours.

Soccer

• Summer of 1992 wins Denmark a Europe tournament for soccer.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 14 March – Şaban Özdoğan, footballer

AprilJune

• 17 April Pil Kalinka Nygaard Jeppesen, singer
• 23 April – Mathias "Zanka" Jørgensen, football player
• 1 June – Kennie Chopart, footballer

JulySeptember

• 11 July – Caroline Wozniacki, tennis player
• 22 September – Peter Ankersen, footballer

Deaths

• 19 June – Steen Eiler Rasmussen, architect and writer (born 1898)
• 18 August Grethe Ingmann, singer (born 1938)
• 10 September Harald Salomon, medallist and sculptor (born 1900)
• 30 December Albert Mertz, painter (born 1920)
• 18 December Grethe Glad, fashion designer and educator (born 1891)

See also

• 1990 in Danish television

References