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Decades: 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s Centuries: 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 2004 in Norwegian football Other events of 2004 List of years in Norway

Incumbents

• King of Norway - Harald V of Norway

Events

• 26 March - Norsk Hydro's fertilizer business was spun off as a separately stock-listed company under the name of Yara International.

Arts and literature

Births

Deaths

January to March

• 13 January - Arne Næss, Jr., businessman and mountaineer (b.1937)
• 29 January - Helge Seip, politician (b.1919)
• 8 February - Kristian Henriksen, international soccer player, coach (b.1911)
• 10 February - Nils Aas, sculptor (b.1933)
• 15 February - Jens Evensen, lawyer, judge, politician and Minister (b.1917)
• 4 March - Erik Stai, high jumper (b.1915)
• 13 March - Guttorm Berge, alpine skier and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1929)
• 18 March - Jostein Nerbøvik, historian (b.1938)
• 27 March - Einar Magnussen, economist and politician (b.1931)

April to June

• 10 April - Odd Wang Sørensen, international soccer player (b.1922)
• 25 April - Thorbjørn Kultorp, politician (b.1929)
• 6 May - Kjell Hallbing, author of Western books under the pseudonym Louis Masterson (b.1934)
• 13 May - Kjell Bækkelund, pianist (b.1930)
• 13 May - Magnar Estenstad, cross country skier and double Olympic medallist (b.1924)
• 13 May - Bergfrid Fjose, politician and Minister (b.1915)
• 30 May - Leif Lund, politician (b.1942)
• 2 June - Egil Tynæs, medical doctor, killed in Afghanistan (b.1941)
• 23 June - Tor Aspengren, trade unionist (b.1917)
• 25 June - Carl Fredrik Wisløff, theologian and Christian preacher (b.1908)

July to September

• 13 July - Tore A. Liltved, politician (b.1939)
• 17 July - Paul Hilmar Jenson, philatelist (b.1930)
• 21 July - Oddbjørn Sverre Langlo, politician (b.1935)
• 31 August - Edvin Landsem, cross country skier (b.1925)

October to December

• 13 October - Erik Bye, journalist, artist and radio and television personality (b.1926)
• 3 November - Eilert Dahl, Nordic skier (b.1919)
• 14 November - Petter Mørch Koren, politician and Minister (b.1910)
• 14 November - Harald Kråkenes, rower and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1925)
• 18 November - Kolbjørn Stordrange, politician (b.1924)
• 4 December - Oscar Olsen, politician (b.1908)
• 5 December - Øystein Rottem, philologist, literary historian and literary critic (b.1946)
• 12 December - Reidar Alveberg, bobsledder (b.1916)
• 18 December - Albert Nordengen, politician (b.1923)
• 24 December - Per Fossum, alpine skier (b.1910)

Full date unknown

• Petter Jakob Bjerve, politician and Minister (b.1913)
• Finn Carling, novelist, playwright, poet and essayist (b.1925)
• Einar Førde, politician and Minister (b.1943)
• Sivert Andreas Nielsen, civil servant, banker and politician (b.1916)
• Arild Nyquist, novelist, poet, children's writer and musician (b.1937)
• Magne Skodvin, historian (b.1915)