1950 in Denmark

← 1949 1948 1947 1950 in Denmark → 1951 1952 1953
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1950 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1950 in Denmark.

Incumbents[edit]

• Monarch – Frederik IX^[1]
• Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft (until 30 October), Erik Eriksen

Events[edit]

• 9 January – Denmark becomes one of the first European countries to recognize the People's Republic of China.^[2]

Sports[edit]

• 20–27 August– Denmark wins one gold medal, one silver medal and one bronze medal at the 1947 European Aquatics Championships.

Badminton[edit]

• 1–4 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[edit]

• 23 April – Holger K. Nielsen, politician
• 26 May – Esben Storm, Danish-Australian screenwriter, director and actor (died 2011)
• 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 (died 2018)

Deaths[edit]

January–March[edit]

• 11 January – Karin Michaëlis, journalist and author (born 1872)
• 16 February – Johannes Hjelmslev, mathematician, discoverer and eponym of the Hjelmslev transformation (born 1873)

April–June[edit]

• 16 April – Anders Peter Nielsen, sport shooter (born 1867)
• 9 May – Vilhelm Lundstrøm, painter (born 1893)
• 26 May – Louis Larsen, gymnast, silver medalist at the 1906 Intercalated Games (born 1874)
• 5 June – Rudolph Tegner, sculptor linked with the Symbolist movement (born 1873)

July–September[edit]

• 3 August – Georg Høeberg, composer and conductor (born 1872)
• 10 September – Prince Erik, Count of Rosenborg (born 1890)

October–December[edit]

• 3 October – Elna Borch, naturalism and symbolism sculptor (born 1869)
• 25 November – Johannes V. Jensen, author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 (born 1873)

Full date unknown[edit]

• Per Sax Møller, silversmith

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