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Decades: 1890s • 1900s • 1910s • 1920s • 1930s Centuries: 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 1919 in Norwegian football Other events of 1919 List of years in Norway

Incumbents

• King of Norway - Haakon VII of Norway

Events

• Production of zinc begins in Glomfjord at the state-owned industrial plant.

Arts and literature

Births

January to March

• 14 January - Harry Hansen, politician (d.2003)
• 17 January - Per Bergsland, Royal Air Force pilot and prisoner of war (d.1992)
• 31 January - Claus Helberg, resistance fighter and mountain guide (d.2003)
• 11 February - Erland Steenberg, politician
• 2 March - Carl Mortensen, sailor and Olympic silver medallist (d.2005)
• 5 March - Helge Seip, politician (d.2004)
• 17 March - Erik Rinde, jurist and pioneer of social sciences in Norway (d.1994)
• 18 March - Laila Schou Nilsen, speed skater, alpine skier and tennis player (d.1998)

April to June

• 13 April - Nils Reinhardt Christensen, film director and screenwriter (d.1990)
• 14 April - Bjarne Berg-Sæther, politician
• 19 April - Asbjørn Lillås, politician (d.1983)
• 25 April - Finn Helgesen, speed skater and Olympic gold medallist
• 6 May - Nils Uhlin Hansen, long jumper and resistance member (d.1945)
• 18 May - Ottar Landfald, politician
• 6 June - Rita Haugerud, politician
• 29 June – Johannes Heggland, author and politician (d.2008)^[1]

July to September

• 14 July - Arnold Dyrdahl, bobsledder (d.1973)
• 3 August - Thor Gystad, politician (d.2007)
• 3 August - Ola M. Hestenes, politician (d.2008)
• 4 August - Engly Lie, politician (d.2001)
• 9 August - Liv Andersen, politician (d.1997)
• 13 August - Børre Falkum-Hansen, sailor and Olympic silver medallist (d.2006)
• 30 August - Joachim Rønneberg, resistance fighter and broadcaster
• 15 September - Eilert Dahl, Nordic skier (d.2004)
• 30 September - Olav O. Nomeland, politician (d.1986)

October to December

• 26 October - Knut Andreas Knudsen, politician (d.2001)
• 29 November - Aksel Fossen, politician
• 11 December - Elsa Skjerven, politician and Minister (d.2005)
• 22 December - Bjarne Orten, civil servant
• 27 December - Gunnar Alf Larsen, politician (d.2003)

Full date unknown

• Odd Chr. Gøthe, civil servant and politician (d.2002)
• Reidar Haaland, police officer and collaborator, executed (d.1945)
• Finn Hødnebø, philologist (d.2007)
• Odd Narud, businessperson (d.2000)
• Olav Nordrå, writer (d.1994)
• Asbjørn Ruud, ski jumper and World Champion (d.1986)
• Aage Samuelsen, evangelist, singer and composer (d.1987)
• Victor Sparre, visual artist (d.2008)^[2]
• Jakob Sverdrup, historian (d.1997)

Deaths

• 4 March - Sigurd Mathisen, speed skater and world champion (b.1884)
• 22 May - Jens Ludvig Andersen Aars, politician (b.1852)

Full date unknown

• Carl Wilhelm Bøckmann Barth, painter (b.1847)
• Alf Collett, writer (b.1844)
• Ole Falck Ebbell, architect (b.1839)
• Cathinka Guldberg, Norway's first nurse (b.1840)
• Gulbrand Hagen, newspaper editor and writer in America (b.1864)
• Anders Nicolai Kiær, statistician (b.1838)
• Oscar Sigvald Julius Strugstad, politician and Minister (b.1851)

References