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See also:	Other events of 1983 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1983 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Margrethe II^[1]
• Prime minister - Poul Schlüter

Events

Sports

Football

• 21 September – Denmark achieves an important 1–0 win against England in Wembley Stadium in Group 3 of the UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying. Denmark's goal is scored by Allan Simonsen.
• 16 November – Denmark qualifies for UEFA Euro 1984 by defeating Greece 2–0 in their last qualification game and thus winning Group 3 one point ahead of England.

Badminton

• 2– May – The 1983 IBF World Championships takes place in Copenhagen.
  • Steen Fladberg and Jesper Helledie win gold in men's doubles
  • Steen Fladberg and Pia Nielsen win gold in mixed doubles.
• Gentofte BK wins Europe Cup.

Cycling

• 13 July – Kim Andersen wins Stage 12 of the 1983 Tour de France.
• Gert Frank (DEN) and Patrick Sercu (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

January–March

• 20 March – Thomas Kahlenberg, Former footballer

April–June

• 17 April – Thomas Kristensen, footballer
• 23 April – Leon Andreasen, footballer
• 15 May – Anne Lolk Thomsen, rower^[2]
• 17 May – Simon Mathew, pop singer
• 18 May – Agnete Kirk Thinggaard, dressage rider^[3]
• 23 May – Joachim Persson, badminton player
• 23 May – Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard, professional footballer
• 31 May – Kim Aabech, footballer
• 6 June – Michael Krohn-Dehli, footballer

July–September

• 7 July – Jakob Poulsen, former professional footballer
• 24 July – Carsten Mogensen, badminton player
• 27 August – Thomas Mikkelsen, footballer
• 27 August – Frederik Nielsen, tennis player
• 31 August – Lasse Svan Hansen, handball player
• 18 September – Rasmus Würtz, footballer

October–December

• 4 October – Karsten Lauritzen, politician
• 23 November – Kamilla Rytter Juhl, badminton player^[4]
• 19 December – Mia Rosing, model

Deaths

• 16 September – Andreas Friis, painter (born 1890)
• 24 September – Lis Møller, journalist and politician (born 1918)^[5]
• 29 November – Aage Rasmussen, photographer and track and field athlete (born 1889)
• 10 November – Carl Erik Soya, author and dramatist (born 1896)