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Decades: 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s Centuries: 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 1960 in Norwegian football Other events of 1960 List of years in Norway

Incumbents

• King of Norway - Olav V of Norway

Events

Arts and literature

Births

January to June

• 7 February - Ingunn Foss, politician
• 29 March - Sonja Mandt-Bartholsen, politician
• 25 June - Randi Karlstrøm, politician
• 26 June - Rigmor Aasrud, politician

July to December

• 21 July - Brynjar Aa, dramatist
• 2 September - Kristin Halvorsen, politician and Minister
• 4 September - Ragnhild Aarflot Kalland, politician
• 18 September - Nils Petter Molvær, jazz trumpeter, composer and producer
• 18 December - Niels Christian Geelmuyden, journalist and writer
• 11 December - Frode Grytten, writer and journalist

Full date unknown

• Øystein Alme, author
• Per Bergersen, musician (d.1990)

Deaths

January to June

• 15 January - Carl Fredrik Holmboe, engineer (b.1882)
• 15 May - Rolf Jacobsen, boxer (b.1899)
• 22 May - Anders Tjøstolvsen Noddeland, politician (b.1885)
• 25 June - Carl Alfred Pedersen, gymnast and triple jumper (b.1882)

July to December

• 22 July - Hans Nordvik, rifle shooter and Olympic gold medallist (b.1880)
• 29 July - Kristian Østervold, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1885)
• 14 October - Sigurd Hoel, author and publishing consultant (b.1890)
• 13 December - Christopher Hornsrud, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (b.1859)
• 13 December - Einar Jansen, historian, genealogist and archivist (b.1893)
• 17 December - Arne Sejersted, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1877)
• 18 December - Trygve Schjøtt, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1882)
• 28 December - Karl Eugen Hammerstedt, politician (b.1903)

Full date unknown

• Bodil Katharine Biørn, missionary known as Mother Katharine (b.1871)
• Eilert Falch-Lund, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1875)
• Gunnar Kaasen, musher, delivered diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska in 1925, as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the city from an epidemic (b.1882)
• Gabriel Kielland, architect, painter and designer (b.1871)
• Jakob Nilsson Vik, politician and Minister (b.1882)