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Incumbents

• King of Norway - Harald V of Norway

Events

• Norsk Hydro merges its gas stations in Norway and Denmark with the Texaco, creating the joint venture HydroTexaco. The service station chain is sold in 2006 to Reitangruppen.

Arts and literature

• Arvid Torgeir Lie, poet, short story writer and translator, is awarded the Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize for poetry.^[1]

Births

• 8 August - Malin Reitan, singer

Deaths

January to June

• 6 February - Bjarne Henry Henriksen, politician (b.1904)
• 26 February - Kjell Thorbjørn Kristensen, politician (b.1927)
• 28 February - Ragnvald Mikal Andersen, politician (b.1899)
• 16 May - Parelius Hjalmar Bang Berntsen, politician (b.1910)
• 26 May - Sigmund Skard, poet, essayist and professor of literature (b.1903)
• 30 May - Sunniva Hakestad Møller, politician (b.1907)
• 31 May - Ingrid Semmingsen, historian, first female professor of history in Norway (b.1910)
• 5 June - Olav Moen, politician (b.1909)

July to December

• 30 July - Pelle Christensen, actor and translator (b.1923)
• 28 September - Ottar Fjærvoll, politician (b.1914)
• 17 October - Gunvor Hofmo, writer and poet (b.1921)
• 18 October - Torrey Mosvold, shipping and industrial entrepreneur (b.1910)
• 7 November - Halvor Thorbjørn Hjertvik, politician (b.1914)
• 25 November - Leif Juster, comedian, singer and actor (b.1910)
• 3 December - Hans Aardal, politician (b.1921)
• 7 December - Benn John Valsø, bobsledder (b.1927)

Full date unknown

• Arne Arnardo, circus performer and owner (b.1912)
• Otto Chr. Bastiansen, physicist and chemist (b.1918)
• Peter Bastiansen, businessperson and politician (b.1912)
• Sigmund Mjelve, writer (b.1926)
• Inger Waage, industrial ceramacist (b.1923)

References