1950 in Denmark

Events from the year 1950 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederik IX
 * Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft (until 30 October), Erik Eriksen

Events

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

Sports

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

Badminton

 * 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

 * 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)

January–March

 * 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

 * 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

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

October–December

 * 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

 * Per Sax Møller, silversmith