1950 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX
• Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft, Erik Eriksen

Events

• 9 January – Denmark becomes one of the first European countries to recognize the People's Republic of China.

Sports

• 2027 August Denmark wins one gold medal, one silver medal and one bronze medal at the 1947 European Aquatics Championships.

Badminton

• 14 March All England Badminton Championships
• * Tonny Ahm wins gold in Women's Single at the All England Badminton Championships.
• * Jørn Skaarup and Preben Dabelsteen wins gold in Men's Doubles
• * Tonny Ahm and Kirsten Thorndahl wins gold in Women's Doubles
• * Poul Holm and Tonny Ahm win gold in Mixed Doubles

Births

• 23 April Holger K. Nielsen, politician
• 26 May – Esben Storm, Danish-Australian screenwriter, director and actor
• 20 July Charlotte Hanmann, photographer
• 25 July Leif Davidsen, author and journalist
• 2 August – Jussi Adler-Olsen, crime fiction writer
• 10 November Troels Wörsel, painter

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 11 January – Karin Michaëlis, journalist and author
• 16 February – Johannes Hjelmslev, mathematician, discoverer and eponym of the Hjelmslev transformation

AprilJune

• 16 April Anders Peter Nielsen, sport shooter
• 9 May – Vilhelm Lundstrøm, painter
• 26 May – Louis Larsen, gymnast, silver medalist at the 1906 Intercalated Games
• 5 June – Rudolph Tegner, sculptor linked with the Symbolist movement

JulySeptember

• 3 August – Georg Høeberg, composer and conductor
• 10 September – Prince Erik, Count of Rosenborg

OctoberDecember

• 3 October – Elna Borch, naturalism and symbolism sculptor
• 31 October Ove Jørgensen, classical scholar
• 25 November – Johannes V. Jensen, author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944

Full date unknown

• Per Sax Møller, silversmith