1950 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IX
• Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft, Erik Eriksen

  Events

• 9 January – Denmark becomes one of the first European countries to recognize the People's Republic of China.

  Births

• 26 May – Esben Storm, Danish-Australian screenwriter, director and actor

  Deaths

• 11 January – Karin Michaëlis, journalist and author
• 16 February – Johannes Hjelmslev, mathematician, discoverer and eponym of the Hjelmslev transformation
• 9 May – Vilhelm Lundstrøm, painter
• 26 May – Louis Larsen, gymnast, silver medalist at the 1906 Intercalated Games
• 5 June – Rudolph Tegner, sculptor linked with the Symbolist movement
• 3 August – Georg Høeberg, composer and conductor
• 3 October – Elna Borch, naturalism and symbolism sculptor
• 25 November – Johannes V. Jensen, author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944