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Decades: 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s Centuries: 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 1976 in Norwegian football Other events of 1976 List of years in Norway

Incumbents

• King of Norway - Olav V of Norway
• Prime Minister of Norway - Trygve Bratteli
• Prime Minister of Norway - Odvar Nordli

Events

• 12 January - Odvar Nordli becomes Prime Minister of Norway

Arts and literature

• Karin Bang, poet and novelist, is awarded the Aschehoug Prize literature award.^[1]
• Finn Carling, novelist, playwright, poet and essayist, is awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment literature prize.

Births

• 10 March - Ane Brun, singer-songwriter
• 22 June - Silja Ekeland Bjørkly, politician
• 26 June - Mette Davidsen, team handball player

Deaths

January to March

• 5 February - Harald Stenerud, hammer and discus thrower (b.1897)
• 2 March - Narve Bonna, ski jumper and Olympic silver medallist (b.1901)
• 10 March - Einar Ræder, long jumper (b.1896)
• 12 March - Petter Carl Reinsnes, politician (b.1904)

April to June

• 4 April - Nils Emaus Nilsen, politician (b.1886)
• 8 April - Brynjulv Sjetne, politician (b.1917)
• 9 May - Jens Bjørneboe, writer (b.1920)
• 19 May - Tønnes Oksefjell, politician (b.1901)
• 19 June - Peder Ree Pedersen, politician (b.1913)

July to December

• 19 July - Oliver Dahl-Goli, politician (b.1897)
• 30 July - Sverre Offenberg Løberg, politician (b.1905)
• 4 September - Sverre Bernhard Nybø, politician (b.1903)
• 7 September - Birger Halvorsen, high jumper (b.1905)
• 21 September - Jens Salvesen, sailor and Olympic silver medallist (b.1881)
• 5 October - Lars Onsager, physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b.1903)
• 29 October - Magnus Herseth, rower and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1892)
• 28 November - Jens E. Ekornes, businessperson (b.1908)

Full date unknown

• Ludvig G. Braathen, shipping and airline magnate (b.1891)
• Edvard Drabløs, actor and theatre director (b.1883)
• Bjarne Eriksen, businessperson (b.1886)
• Sigurd Eriksen, painter (b.1884)
• Kristian Fjeld, politician and Minister (b.1887)
• Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (b.1889)
• Erik Kristen-Johanssen, jurist and theatre director (b.1901)
• Arvid Noe, sailor and truck driver, one of the first non-Africans known to have died from AIDS (b.1946)
• Leif J. Sverdrup, civil engineer and military officer in America (b.1898)

References