Company: DHR
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000313616-25-000081
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Company: DANAHER CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
<div align='center'>Washington, DC 20549</div>

#### SCHEDULE 14A

#### PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a)

#### OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
<div align='center'>(Amendment No. )</div>

| ☑ |     | Filed by Registrant |     | ☐ |     | Filed by a Party other than the Registrant |

| Check the appropriate box: |     |                                                                                 |
| ☐                          |     | Preliminary Proxy Statement                                                     |
| ☐                          |     | Confidential, for Use of the Commission Only (as permitted by Rule 14A-6(E)(2)) |
| ☑                          |     | Definitive Proxy Statement                                                      |
| ☐                          |     | Definitive Additional Materials                                                 |
| ☐                          |     | Soliciting Material under §240.14a-12                                           |

### DANAHER CORPORATION
<div align='center'>(Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant)</div>

| Payment of Filing Fee (Check all boxes that apply): |     |                                                                                                     |
| ☑                                                   |     | No fee required.                                                                                    |
| ☐                                                   |     | Fee paid previously with preliminary materials.                                                     |
| ☐                                                   |     | Fee computed on table in exhibit required by Item 25(b) per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11 |

Notice of 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

#### Items of Business
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 2 | To elect the thirteen directors named in the attached Proxy Statement to hold office until the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until their successors are elected and qualified. 
 To ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as Danaher’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025.                                           |     | Location                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 There is no physical location for Danaher's 2025 Annual Meeting.  Shareholders may instead attend virtually at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/DHR2025                                                                                                                            |     | Date and Time          
 May 6, 2025            
 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time |
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