1950 in Denmark

Decades:	1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s;
See also:	Other events of 1950; List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1950 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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.

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)

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

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)

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)