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Decades: 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s Centuries: 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 1986 in Norwegian football Other events of 1986 List of years in Norway

Incumbents

• King of Norway - Olav V of Norway

Events

• Norsk Hydro acquires Årdal og Sunndal Verk in a merger to create the light metal division Hydro Aluminium.
• 9 May - Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Prime Minister of Norway for the second time.

Arts and literature

• Finn Carling, novelist, playwright, poet and essayist, is awarded the Dobloug Prize literature award.

Births

• 10 March - Jon Aaraas, ski jumper.

Deaths

January to June

• 5 January - Eivind Sværen, shot putter (b.1917)
• 15 January - Knut Brynildsen, international soccer player (b.1917)
• 24 February - Arthur Rydstrøm, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (b.1896)
• 23 April - Harald Nicolai Samuelsberg, politician (b.1911)
• 6 May - Toralf Westermoen, engineer, pioneer for the development of high speed craft (b.1914)

July to September

• 6 August - Hans-Jørgen Holman, musicologist and educationalist (b.1925)
• 10 August - Jon Snersrud, skier and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1902)
• 8 September - Idar Norstrand, civil servant and politician (b.1915)
• 24 September - Harald Selås, politician (b.1908)
• 25 September - Hans Vogt, linguist (b.1903)

October to December

• 18 October - Sverre Ingolf Haugli, speed skater and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1925)
• 30 October - Olaf Hansen, boxer (b.1906)
• 31 October - Alfred Hauge, novelist, poet and historian (b.1915)
• 4 November - Thorolf Rafto, human rights activist and professor in Economic History (b.1922)
• 23 November - Olaf Hoffsbakken, Nordic skier, Olympic silver medallist and World Champion (b.1908)
• 11 December - Olav O. Nomeland, politician (b.1919)
• 13 December - Jarl Johnsen, boxer (b.1913)
• 14 December - John Anker Johansen, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (b.1894)
• 21 December - Helge Sivertsen, discus thrower, politician and Minister (b.1913)
• 31 December - Ole Johansen, politician (b.1904)

Full date unknown

• Sverre Marstrander, professor in archaeology (b.1910)
• Knut Rød, police officer responsible for the transfer of Jewish people to SS troops in Oslo, acquitted (b.1900)
• Asbjørn Ruud, ski jumper and World Champion (b.1919)