1961 in Norway

Events in the year 1961 in Norway.

Incumbents

12 January – Princess Astrid marries Johan Martin Ferner.
March – Ingrid Bjerkås, ordained as first female minister in the Church of Norway
15 April – The Socialist People's Party was founded.
9 August – Holtaheia Accident: A British passenger plane crashes in Strand. All 39 passengers aboard, including 34 children, are killed.
11 September – The 1961 Parliamentary election takes place.

Olav Bjaaland was one of the first five men to reach the South Pole

23 January – Andreas Baalsrud, engineer (b. 1872)[1]
13 March – Lise Lindbæk, war correspondent (b. 1905)
27 March – Jacob Pedersen, track and field athlete (b. 1889)
2 April – Arne Torolf Strøm, politician (b. 1901)
26 April – Anna Sethne, educator (born 1872).[2]
2 May – Petter Jamvold, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b. 1899)
24 May – Rachel Grepp, journalist and politician (b. 1879)[3]
7 June – Harald Gram, jurist, politician and genealogist (b. 1887)
8 June – Olav Bjaaland, ski champion and polar explorer (b. 1873)
9 June – Arnstein Arneberg, architect (b.1882)[4]
30 June – Lars Sverkeson Romundstad, politician (b. 1885)
14 August – Thomas Aas, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b. 1887)
16 September – Johanne Samueline Pedersen, politician (b. 1887)
17 September – Henrik Ameln, jurist and politician (b. 1879)
25 September – Olav Gullvåg, playwright, novelist, poet and editor (b. 1885)[5]
3 October – Anne Grimdalen, sculptor (b. 1899)
17 October – Jens Olai Steffensen, politician (b. 1891)
9 November – Ferdinand Bie, long jumper and Olympic gold medallist (b. 1888).[6]
13 November – Herman Smitt Ingebretsen, politician (b. 1891)
21 November – Hjalmar Olai Storeide, politician (b. 1901)
22 November – Ole Hallesby, Lutheran neo-orthodox pietist (b. 1879)
4 December – Ingvar Wedervang, economist and statistician (b. 1891)
12 December – Hauk Aabel, comedian and actor (b. 1867)[7]
26 December – Kristofer Uppdal, poet and author (b. 1878)[8]

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