{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Year in Denmark|1950}} Events from the year '''1950 in Denmark'''.
==Incumbents== * Monarch – Frederik IX<ref>{{cite web|title=Frederick IX: king of Denmark|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-IX|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=16 June 2019|language=en}}</ref> * 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.<ref>{{cite news|author=Christopher Bo Bramsen|title=Peace and friendship: Denmark's official relations with China, 1674–2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NiW-uogYXQMC&pg=PA6|isbn=87-87062-82-8|year=2000}}</ref> * 8 May {{ndash}} The Tollund Man is discovered. * 14 March {{ndash}} The 1950 Danish local elections are held. * 27 May {{ndash}} The Ministry of Defence is established. * 5 September {{ndash}} The 1950 Danish Folketing election is held. * November {{ndash}} The last Danish collaborator trial sentences are passed.
===Date unknown=== * The Colony of Greenland is formed through the merger of North Greenland and South Greenland.
==Sports== * 20{{ndash}}27 August{{ndash}} Denmark wins one gold medal, one silver medal and one bronze medal at the 1947 European Aquatics Championships.
===Badminton=== * 1{{ndash}}4 March {{ndash}} 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== ===April{{ndash}}June=== *23 April {{ndash}} Holger K. Nielsen, politician * 15 May {{ndash}} Jørgen Marcussen, cuclist *26 May – Esben Storm, Danish-Australian screenwriter, director and actor (died 2011) * 7 June {{ndash}} Ebbe Nielsen, entomologist (died 2001)
===July{{ndash}}September=== *20 July {{ndash}} Charlotte Hanmann, photographer * 20 July {{ndash}} Charlotte Hanmann, photographer and painter *25 July {{ndash}} Leif Davidsen, author and journalist * 2 August – Jussi Adler-Olsen, crime fiction writer
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 10 November {{ndash}} Troels Wörsel, painter (died 2018) * 14 November {{ndash}} Lars Muhl, singer * 30 December {{ndash}} Bjarne Stroustrup, computer scientist
==Deaths== [[File:Johannes Vilhelm Jensen 1944.jpg|thumb|120px|Johannes V. Jensen.]] ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 11 January – Karin Michaëlis, journalist and author (born 1872) * 1 February {{ndash}} Peter Holm, museum director (born 1873) * 16 February – Johannes Hjelmslev, mathematician, discoverer and eponym of the Hjelmslev transformation (born 1873)
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 11 April {{ndash}} Ingeborg Pehrson, asctress (died 1886) * 16 April {{ndash}} 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{{ndash}}September=== * 7 July{{ndash}} Niels Bukh, gymnast and educator (born 1880) * 3 August – Georg Høeberg, composer and conductor (born 1872) * 10 September – Prince Erik, Count of Rosenborg (born 1890)
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 3 October – Elna Borch, naturalism and symbolism sculptor (born 1869) * 31 October {{ndash}} Ove Jørgensen, classical scholar (born 1877) * 19 November {{ndash}} Aage Redal, actor (born 1891) * 25 November – Johannes V. Jensen, author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 (born 1873)
===Full date unknown=== * Per Sax Møller, silversmith
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