{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Year in Denmark|1989}} Events from the year 1989 '''in Denmark'''.
==Incumbents== * Monarch - Margrethe II<ref>{{cite web |title=Margrethe II {{!}} queen of Denmark |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margrethe-II |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=16 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Prime minister - Poul Schlüter
==Events== * 26 August – Munkeruphus north of Copenhagen opens its doors to its first exhibition as an exhibition space.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.munkeruphus.dk/historie/index_historie.html |title=Munkeruphus' historie |language=da |publisher=Munkeruphus |access-date=2011-12-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529145519/http://www.munkeruphus.dk/historie/index_historie.html |archive-date=29 May 2009 }}</ref> * 8 September – Partnair Flight 394 crashes into the North Sea of the Danish coast, killing all 55 people on board.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ap |date=1989-09-09 |title=Plane Crash Off Danish Coast Kills 55 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/09/world/plane-crash-off-danish-coast-kills-55.html |access-date=2024-05-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * 1 October – Denmark becomes the first country in the world to legalise civil partnerships for same-sex couples.<ref>{{cite web |title=It’s 30 years since Denmark made history and became the first country to introduce civil partnerships for same-sex couples |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/01/denmark-30-year-same-sex-partnerships-gay-marriage/ |website=PinkNews |access-date=25 November 2019 |date=1 October 2019}}</ref> * Full date unknown: ** Tools Design, a consumer products and furniture design studio is founded.<ref name="Boogar">{{cite book|author=Steve Boogar|title=BoogarLists Directory of Product Design Firms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OA4VmrjBPmgC&pg=PA15|publisher=BoogarLists|page=15|id=GGKEY:6PXZC3G22GP}}</ref>
==Culture==
===Film=== * 28 January – Both ''Pelle the Conqueror'' and ''Babette's Feast'' art nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 46th Golden Globe Awards and ''Pelle the Conqueror'' wins the award.
==Sport==
* 15{{ndash}} Mette Jacobsen wins two bronze medals in Women's 200 metre freestyle and Women's 200 metre butterfly at the 1989 European Aquatics Championships.
===Cycling=== * Danny Clark (AUS) and Urs Freuler (SUI) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race. * Danny Clark (AUS) and Jens Veggerby (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
==Births== ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 9 January {{ndash}} Rikke Møller Pedersenm swimmer
* 14 January – Lærke Møller, handball player * 26 January – Kristoffer Hjort Storm, politician * 26 March – Simon Kjær, football player
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 8 May {{ndash}} Lars Eller, ice hockey player * 31 May – Daniel Wass, footballer
===July{{ndash}}September=== * 7 August – Søren Frederiksen, footballer * 7 September {{ndash}} Alban Lendorf, ballet dancer
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 2 October {{ndash}} Frederik Andersen, ice hockey player * 29 October {{ndash}} Maria Sten, actress * 14 December {{ndash}} Casper Ulrich Mortensen, handballer * 21 December – Thorbjørn Olesen, golfer
==Deaths== [[File:Thorkil Kristensen (Kristensen cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|Thorkil Kristensen.]] ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 22 January {{ndash}} Ellen Andersen, textile artist (born 1908) * 3 February – Ebbe Langberg, actor (born 1933) * 4 February {{ndash}} Thorkild Hansen, author (born 1927)
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 5 April {{ndash}} Hans Lunding, military officer and member of the resistance movement (born 1899) * 29 April {{ndash}} Else Schøtt, operatic soprano (born 1895) * 17 May – Finn Juhl, architect and designer (born 1912) * 26 June {{ndash}} Thorkil Kristensen, politician (born 1899)
===July{{ndash}}August=== * 2 July – Hilmar Baunsgaard, politician, former Danish prime minister (born 1920) * 30 July – Lily Broberg, actress (born 1923)
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 27 October {{ndash}} Kjeld Philip, politician (born 1912)
==See also== *1989 in Danish television
==References== {{Reflist}}
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