{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Year in Denmark|1981}} Events from the year 1981 '''in Denmark'''.
==Incumbents== * Monarch – Margrethe II<ref>{{cite web |title=Margrethe II {{!}} queen of Denmark |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margrethe-II |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=16 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Prime minister – Anker Jørgensen
==Events== {{main|1981}} *8 December – The 1981 Danish parliamentary election is held.
==Sports==
===Badminton=== * Gentofte BK wins Europe Cup.
===Cycling=== * Albert Fritz (FRG) and Patrick Sercu (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
==Births== ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 9 February – Kristian Pless, tennis player * 5 March {{ndash}} Helle Frederiksen, triathlete * 31 March {{ndash}} Mattias Tesfaye, politician
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 30 May – Lars Møller Madsen, handball player * 9 June – Kasper Søndergaard, handball player
===July{{ndash}}September=== * 1 August – Hans Lindberg, handball player * 1 September – Michael Maze, table tennis player * 6 September – Søren Larsen, footballer
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 6 October – Thomas Troelsen, music producer * 28 October – Elvira Lind, film director * 24 November {{ndash}} Mads Rasmussen, rower * 4 December – Brian Vandborg, cyclist
==Deaths== ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 17 February – Ellen Gottschalch, actress (born 1894) * 27 March – Preben Kaas (born 1930)
===July{{ndash}}September=== * 4 July – Niels Erik Nørlund, mathematician (died 1885) * 30 September – Flemming Weis, composer (born 1909)
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 21 November – Ejner Federspiel, actor (born 1896) * 28 November – Arthur Jensen, actor (born 1897) * 20 November {{ndash}} Knud Ejler Løgstrup, philosopher (died 1905) * 4 December {{ndash}} Ole Sarvig, poet (born 1921)
==See also== *1981 in Danish television
==References== {{Reflist}}
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