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Decades: 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s Centuries: 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 1952 in Norwegian football Other events of 1952 List of years in Norway

Incumbents

• King of Norway - Haakon VII of Norway

Events

• Between February 14 and February 25 the 1952 Winter Olympics take place in Oslo.
• Around April 4 five Norwegian seal hunting vessels went down in a storm in the West Ice. The West Ice accidents claimed 78 lives in total.

Arts and literature

• Åge Rønning, writer and journalist, is awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment literature prize.

Sport

• Olaf Barda, chess player, becomes the first Norwegian to be awarded the title of International Master

Births

January to June

• 25 January - Inga Balstad, politician
• 11 March - Vigdis Giltun, politician
• 6 March – Nils Johan Ringdal, author and historian (d.2008)^[1]
• 25 April - Ketil Bjørnstad, pianist and composer
• 2 May - Gunda Johansen, politician
• 13 May - Lars Amund Vaage, author and playwright
• 19 May - Guri Ingebrigtsen, politician

July to December

• 10 July - Kari Husøy, politician
• 18 July - Per Petterson, novelist
• 27 July - Torfinn Bjarkøy, civil servant
• 8 August - Jostein Gaarder, author
• 19 August - Lillian Müller, model and actress
• 18 September - Gunn Olsen, politician
• 25 October - Helen Fløisand, politician
• 18 November - Gerd Janne Kristoffersen, politician

Full date unknown

• Anne-Lise Bakken, politician and Minister
• Magnus Takvam, journalist

Deaths

January to June

• 11 February - Ola Torstensen Lyngstad, politician (b.1894)
• 14 February - Johan Clementz, boxer (b.1894)
• 19 February - Knut Hamsun, author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b.1859)
• 13 March - Johan Nygaardsvold, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (b.1879)
• 20 April - Sigurd Maseng, diplomat (b.1894)
• 14 May - Carl Julius Alvin Westerlund, politician (b.1885)
• 13 June - Andreas Brecke, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1879)

July to December

• 28 September - Ingvald Tøndel, politician (b.1887)
• 14 November - Aldor Ingebrigtsen, politician (b.1888)
• 14 December - Fartein Valen, composer and musical theorist (b.1887)

Full date unknown

• Adam Egede-Nissen, politician (b.1868)
• Christian Wegner Haaland, ship-owner and politician (b.1892)
• Knut Liestøl, politician and Minister (b.1881)
• William Martin Nygaard, publisher and politician (b.1865)

References