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Decades: 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s Centuries: 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 2001 in Norwegian football Other events of 2001 List of years in Norway

Incumbents

• King of Norway - Harald V of Norway

Events

• February– Former Prime Minister, then foreign affairs minister Thorbjørn Jagland makes a political scandal when he jokingly refers to Gabon's president Omar Bongo, due for a state visit to Norway, as "Bongo from Congo".^[1]
• February– Around 40,000 people in Oslo march in a rally to express their outrage and devastation over the racially motivated murder in Holmlia, Oslo of a young black Norwegian boy, Benjamin Hermansen at the hands of a group af neo-Nazis. Marches take place simultaneously all over Norway.
• 25 March– The Schengen Agreement comes into force in Norway.
• August– The railway line Bratsbergbanen in Nedre Telemark closes down. It was opened in 1917.
• 19 October– Kjell Magne Bondevik's second cabinet takes over.
• 3 November– A census counts 4,520,900 inhabitants in Norway.

Arts and literature

• Mo i Rana-based blackened metal band Allfader is established.

Births

Deaths

January to March

• 17 January - Sigurd Vestad, cross country skier (b.1907)
• 26 January - Benjamin Hermansen, murder victim (b.1985)
• 29 January - Ingebrigt Davik, children's writer (b.1925)
• 4 February - Asbjørn Antoni Holm, politician (b.1921)
• 8 February - Ivo Caprino, film director and writer (b.1920)
• 8 February - Torkell Tande, politician (b.1901)
• 13 February - Knut Th. Gleditsch, sports commentator (b.1938)
• 14 February - Olav Reiersøl, statistician and econometrician (b.1908)
• 8 March - David Sandved, architect (b.1912)
• 11 March - Finn Ferner, sailor and Olympic silver medallist (b.1920)
• 22 March - Rolf Birger Pedersen, football player and coach (b.1939)
• 29 March - Helge Ingstad, explorer (b.1899)

April to June

• 4 April - Sverre Engen, skier, ski coach, ski area manager and film-maker in America (b.1911)
• 10 April - Knut Andreas Knudsen, politician (b.1919)
• 12 April - Reidar Hirsti, newspaper editor and politician (b.1925)
• 24 April - Gro Anita Schønn, singer (b.1950)
• 26 April - Sverre Walter Rostoft, politician and Minister (b.1912)
• 7 May - Thor Støre, politician (b.1924)
• 19 May - Vidkunn Hveding, politician and Minister (b.1921)
• 27 May - Knut Myrstad, politician (b.1913)
• 5 June - Sigmund P. Haave, politician (b.1916)
• 14 June - Andreas Wormdahl, politician (b.1911)

July to September

• 15 July - Helge Rognlien, politician and Minister (b.1920)
• 21 July - Gudmund Grytøyr, politician (b.1920)
• 24 July - Sven Olsen, politician (b.1922)
• 31 August - Odd Steinar Holøs, politician (b.1922)

October to December

• 12 October - Gunnar Thorleif Hvashovd, politician (b.1924)
• 1 November - Engly Lie, politician (b.1919)
• 3 November - Liv Paulsen, sprinter and shot putter (b.1925)
• 10 December - Knut Fægri, botanist (b.1909)
• 15 December - Leif Kolflaath, politician (b.1927)
• 19 December - Jakob Weidemann, painter (b.1923)
• 28 December - Arne Rettedal, politician and Minister (b.1926)

Full date unknown

• Odd Abrahamsen, poet (b.1924)
• Håkon Flood, professor of inorganic chemistry (b.1905)
• Henriette Bie Lorentzen, humanist, peace activist, feminist and editor (b.1911)
• Anfinn Lund, civil servant and politician (b.1926)
• Nils Slaatto, architect (b.1923)

References