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.
• 8 May The Tollund Man is discovered.
• 14 March The 1950 Danish local elections are held.
• 27 May The Ministry of Defence is established.
• 5 September The 1950 Danish Folketing election is held.
• November 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

• 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

AprilJune

• 23 April Holger K. Nielsen, politician
• 15 May Jørgen Marcussen, cuclist
• 26 May – Esben Storm, Danish-Australian screenwriter, director and actor (died 2011)
• 7 June Ebbe Nielsen, entomologist (died 2001)

JulySeptember

• 20 July Charlotte Hanmann, photographer
• 20 July Charlotte Hanmann, photographer and painter
• 25 July Leif Davidsen, author and journalist
• 2 August – Jussi Adler-Olsen, crime fiction writer

OctoberDecember

• 10 November Troels Wörsel, painter (died 2018)
• 14 November Lars Muhl, singer
• 30 December Bjarne Stroustrup, computer scientist

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

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

AprilJune

• 11 April Ingeborg Pehrson, asctress (died 1886)
• 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)

JulySeptember

• 7 July 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)

OctoberDecember

• 3 October – Elna Borch, naturalism and symbolism sculptor (born 1869)
• 31 October Ove Jørgensen, classical scholar (born 1877)
• 19 November 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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