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Incumbents

• King of Norway - Haakon VII of Norway

Events

Arts and literature

• Kristian Kristiansen, novelist, playwright, short story and children's writer, is awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment literary prize

Births

• 2 March - Sven Mollekleiv, organizational leader
• 16 June - Grete Faremo, former politician and businessperson
• 5 August - Lise Christoffersen, politician
• 7 August - Vigdis Hjulstad Belbo, politician
• 10 August - Kari Henriksen, politician
• 16 August - Åse Lill Kimestad, politician
• 16 December - Kari Økland, politician

Deaths

January to June

• 16 January - Asbjørn Halvorsen, international soccer player and general secretary of the Norwegian Football Association (b.1898)
• 16 February - Einar Osland, politician (b.1886)
• 2 May - Torkell Vinje, politician (b.1879)
• 1 June - F. Melius Christiansen, violinist and choral conductor (b.1871)
• 2 June - Haaken Hasberg Gran, botanist (b.1870)
• 28 June - Haakon Lind, boxer (b.1906)

July to December

• 6 July - Alfred Ingvald Næss, speed skater (b.1877)
• 11 July - Christian S. Oftedal, politician (b.1907)
• 4 September - Christen Gran Bøgh, jurist, tourism promoter and theatre critic (b.1876)
• 11 September - Einar Liberg, rifle shooter and Olympic gold medallist (b.1873)

Full date unknown

• Anders Fjelstad, politician (b.1879)
• Einar Frogner, politician and Minister (b.1893)
• Karl Hovelsen, Nordic skier (b.1877)
• Ferdinand Schjelderup, mountaineer, Supreme Court Justice and resistance member (b.1886)
• Haakon Shetelig, archaeologist (b.1877)
• Andreas Tostrup Urbye, politician and Minister (b.1869)