1950 in Denmark

Events from the year 1950 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick 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.^[1]

Births

• 26 May – Esben Storm, Danish-Australian screenwriter, director and actor (died 2011)

Deaths

• 11 January – Karin Michaëlis, journalist and author (born 1872)
• 16 February – Johannes Hjelmslev, mathematician, discoverer and eponym of the Hjelmslev transformation (born 1873)
• 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 August – Georg Høeberg, composer and conductor (born 1872)
• 25 November – Johannes V. Jensen, author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 (born 1873)

References

See also