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Decades: 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s Centuries: 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 2002 in Norwegian football Other events of 2002 List of years in Norway

Incumbents

• King of Norway - Harald V of Norway

Events

• A recycling plant is opened in the industrial park in Herøya.

Arts and literature

• Olav Angell, poet, novelist and translator, is awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize.^[1]

Births

Deaths

January to June

• 1 January - Arne Røgden, bobsledder (b.1917)
• 24 January - Ragnar Horn, politician (b.1913)
• 31 January - Jens P. Flå, politician (b.1923)
• 1 February - Sigurd Berge, composer (b.1928)
• 18 April - Thor Heyerdahl, ethnographer and adventurer (b.1914)
• 29 April - Sverre Bratland, military leader (b.1917)
• 28 May - Kai Paulsen, journalist, photographer and computer collector (b.1947)
• 29 June - Ole-Johan Dahl, computer scientist (b.1931)

July to December

• 10 August - Kristen Nygaard, mathematician, computer programming language pioneer and politician (b.1926)
• 26 September - Eleonore Bjartveit, politician and Minister (b.1924)
• 10 October - Sverre L. Mo, politician (b.1915)
• 24 November - Odd Lien, newspaper editor and politician (b.1915)
• 5 December - Magnar Sætre, politician (b.1940)
• 20 December - Tore Tønne, politician and Minister (b.1948)
• 21 December - Harald U. Lied, politician (b.1927)
• 24 December - Kjell Aukrust, author, poet and artist (b.1920)

Full date unknown

• Odd Chr. Gøthe, civil servant and politician (b.1919)
• Johan Berthin Holte, businessperson (b.1915)
• Nils Peder Langvand, judge (b.1929)
• Oddrunn Pettersen, politician and Minister (b.1937)
• Fritz Røed, sculptor (b.1928)
• Einar Skinnarland, resistance fighter (b.1918)
• Knut Tjønneland, politician (b.1907)

References