1950_in_Denmark
1950 in Denmark
List of events
Events from the year 1950 in Denmark.
- Monarch – Frederik IX[1]
- Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft (until 30 October), Erik Eriksen
- 9 January – Denmark becomes one of the first European countries to recognize the People's Republic of China.[2]
- 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
- 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
- "Frederick IX: king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- Christopher Bo Bramsen (2000). "Peace and friendship: Denmark's official relations with China, 1674–2000". ISBN 87-87062-82-8.