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Decades: 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s Centuries: 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 1980 in Norwegian football Other events of 1980 List of years in Norway

Incumbents

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

Events

• 27 March - The oil platform "Alexander Kielland" Wreck in the Ekofisk oil field, 123 people killed in the worst maritime disaster in Norway since World War II.

Arts and literature

Births

• 25 March - Kathrine Sørland, model
• 25 August - Marianne Marthinsen, politician
• 9 September - Ragnhild Aamodt, handball player
• November - Helene Rask, model

Full date unknown

• Lubna Jaffery Fjell, politician

Deaths

January to March

• 3 January - Harald Heide Steen, actor (b.1911)
• 4 January - Axel Henry Hansen, gymnast and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1887)
• 8 January - Tryggve Gran, aviator, explorer and author (b.1889)
• 2 February - Sigurd Lersbryggen, politician (b.1901)
• 12 February - Jørgen Stubberud, polar explorer (b.1883)
• 16 February - Knut Olaf Andreasson Strand, politician (b.1887)
• 1 March - Art Jorgens, baseball player in America (b.1905)
• 17 March - Hans Nikolai Stavrand, politician (b.1894)
• 29 March - Einar Nilsen, boxer (b.1901)

April to June

• 9 May - Rolf Hansen, long distance runner (b.1906)
• 11 May - Dyre Vaa, sculptor and painter (b.1903)
• 17 May - Thore Michelsen, rower and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1888)
• 1 June - Ingvald Svinsås-Lo, politician (b.1897

July to September

• 9 July - Synnøve Lie, speed skater (b.1908)
• 14 July - Kristian Kristiansen, novelist, playwright, short story and children's writer (b.1909)
• 22 July - Gunvor Katharina Eker, politician (b.1906)
• 15 August - Hans Berg, politician (b.1902)
• 19 August - Hans Offerdal, politician (b.1909)

October to December

• 5 October - Tor Oftedal, politician (b.1925)
• 19 October - Torger Hovi, politician (b.1905)
• 9 November - Claudia Olsen, politician (b.1896)
• 18 November - Knut Toven, politician (b.1897)
• 30 November - Ingrid Bjerkås, first female minister in the Church of Norway (b.1901)
• 25 December - Olav Dalgard, filmmaker and literature and art historian (b.1898)

Full date unknown

• Sigval Bergesen the Younger, shipping magnate and industrialist (b.1893)
• Gunnar Bråthen, politician and Minister (b.1896)
• Hilmar Reksten, shipping magnate (b.1897)
• Øistein Strømnæs, intelligence officer (b.1914)
• Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup, Jr., Lutheran theologian, author and bishop (b.1894)
• Kolbjørn Varmann, politician and Minister (b.1904)