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

• 10 May – The 1988 Danish general election takes place.
• 3 November – The old main post office in Købmagergade, Copenhagen, is robbed by what is later to become known as Blekinge Street Gang. One policeman is killed in the robbery.^[2]

Architecture edit

Film edit

• 23 May – Bille August's film Pelle the Conqueror wins the Palme d'Or at the 41st Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

Literature edit

Music edit

Classical music edit

• 27 November – Frederik Magle's Cantata for choir and chamber orchestra We Are Afraid (Vi er bange) is premiered in Grundtvig's Church, Copenhagen.^[4]

• 17 September – 2 October – Denmark at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul: 2 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal.

Badminton edit

• Triton BK Aalborg wins silver at Europe Cup.
• 20 March – Ib Frederiksen wins gold in men's singles at the 1988 All England Open Badminton Championships.
• 10–18 April – With five gold medals, three silver medals and two bronze medals, Denmark finishes as the best nation at the 11th European Badminton Championships in Kristiansand, Norway.

Cycling edit

• 21 July – Johnny Weltz wins Stage 19 of the 1988 Tour de France.
• 21–25 August – Denmark wins two bronze medals at the 1988 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
• Roman Hermann (LIE) and Hans-Henrik Ørsted (DEN) wins the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Football edit

• 10–25 June – Denmark participates in the UEFA Euro 1988 but does not make it beyond the initial group stage after finishing last in Group A.

Motorsports edit

• 1988 Danish speedway season

January–March edit

• 2 January – Nadia Nadim, footballer
• 9 January – Michael Lumb, footballer
• 12 January – Mads Conrad-Petersen, badminton player
• 16 January – Nicklas Bendtner, footballer
• 7 February – Nicki Bille Nielsen, footballer
• 9 February – Lotte Friis, swimmer
• 17 February – Alex Vargas, singer
• 8 March – Jacob Neestrup, football coach

July–September edit

• 10 July – Maja Alm, runner
• 19 July – Mie Augustesen, handball player
• 25 July – Hedegaard, DJ and music producer
• 12 August – MØ, singer
• 18 September – Lukas Forchhammer, singer, songwriter and actor
• 21 September – Jacob Barsøe, rower

October–December edit

• 18 October – Mads Glæsner, swimmer
• 23 October – Nicolaj Agger, footballer
• 19 December – Niklas Landin Jacobsen, handball player

• 27 April – Olaf Wieghorst, painter (born 1899)
• 18 July – Elsa Gress, author (born 1919)
• 29 July – Gertie Wandel, textile artist (born 1894)
• 5 November – C. F. Møller, architect (born 1898)

• 1988 in Danish television