1950 in Denmark
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{{Year in Denmark|1950}}
Events from the year 1950 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
- 9 January – Denmark becomes one of the first European countries to recognize the People's Republic of China.{{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}}
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
- 23 April {{ndash}} Holger K. Nielsen, politician
- 26 May – Esben Storm, Danish-Australian screenwriter, director and actor (died 2011)
- 20 July {{ndash}} Charlotte Hanmann, photographer
- 25 July {{ndash}} Leif Davidsen, author and journalist
- 2 August – Jussi Adler-Olsen, crime fiction writer
- 10 November {{ndash}} Troels Wörsel, painter (died 2018)
Deaths
=January{{ndash}}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{{ndash}}June=
- 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=
- 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)
- 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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