1963 in Norway

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Events in the year 1963 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Olav V
• Prime Minister – Einar Gerhardsen (Labour Party) until 28 August, John Lyng (Conservative Party) until 25 September, Einar Gerhardsen (Labour Party)

Events

The Munch Museum was opened

• 21 March – MS Høegh Aronde sank near Morocco during a voyage from Sassandra to Valencia, resulting in the deaths of 15 of the 28 Norwegian crew members.
• 1 July – Work begins to build Tromsø Airport
• 28 August – Lyng's Cabinet was appointed.
• 25 September – Gerhardsen's Fourth Cabinet was appointed.
• Norsk Hydro in cooperation with Harvey Aluminum starts Alnor, a plant at Karmøy to produce aluminium
• Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.
• The Munch Museum was opened, 100 years after Edvard Munch's birth.

Popular culture

Sports

Music

Main article: 1963 in Norwegian music

Film

Literature

• Stein Mehren, poet, novelist, essayist and playwright, is awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment for Mot en verden av lys.

Notable births

• 4 January – May-Britt Moser, neuroscientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[1]
• 10 April – Rune Christiansen, poet and novelist
• 14 April – Gunvor Eldegard, politician
• 28 April – Henrik Hellstenius, composer and musicologist
• 20 June – Viel Bjerkeset Andersen, artist
• 29 August – Hilde Frafjord Johnson, politician
• 18 October – Sigvart Dagsland, singer, pianist and composer
• 27 December – Sigrid Brattabø Handegard, politician

Full date unknown

• Synnøve Eriksen, novelist

Notable deaths

Kjeld Stub Irgens

• 15 January – Bertel Flaten, politician (b.1900)
• 1 February – Hermann Helgesen, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (b.1889)
• 6 March – Ole Øisang, newspaper editor and politician (b.1893)
• 7 March – Joachim Holst-Jensen, film actor (b.1880)
• 8 March – Per Askim, naval officer (b.1881).[2]
• 13 March – Edvin Paulsen, gymnast and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1889)
• 23 March – Thoralf Skolem, mathematician (b.1887)
• 24 March – Peder Holt, politician (b.1899)
• 28 March – Tollef Tollefsen, rower and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1885)
• 1 April – Agnes Mowinckel, actress and stage producer (b.1875).[3]
• 10 April – Ottar Gjermundshaug, Nordic combined skier (b.1925)
• 11 April – Thorleif Holbye, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1883)
• 13 June – Olav Bjørnstad, rower and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1882)
• 14 June – Olav Hindahl, trade unionist and politician (b.1892)
• 17 June – Eugen Lunde, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1887)
• 20 June – Erling Vinne, triple jumper (b.1892)
• 30 June – Erling Aastad, long jumper and sprinter (b.1898)
• 11 July – Paal Kaasen, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1883)
• 27 July – Trygve Bøyesen, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (b.1886)
• 2 August – Thorstein Johansen, rifle shooter and Olympic gold medallist (b.1888)
• 7 August – Knut Markhus, educator and politician (b. 1878).[4]
• 18 September – Karl Johan Edvardsen, politician (b.1883)
• 20 September – Thorleiv Røhn, military officer, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (b.1881)
• 27 September – Svein Olsen Øraker, politician (b.1886)
• 2 November – Per Gulbrandsen, rower and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1897)
• 18 November – Astrid Skare, politician (b.1891)
• 1 December – Jacob Erstad, gymnast (b.1898)
• 16 December – Anton Beinset, journalist, newspaper editor, short story writer, crime fiction writer and politician (born 1894).[5]
• 19 December – Ingolf Rød, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1889)
• 27 December – Sigvard Sivertsen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (b.1881)

Full date unknown

• Nils Selmer Hauff, bookseller (b.1882)
• Hjalmar Holand, historian (b.1872)
• Kjeld Stub Irgens, sea captain and collaborator minister (b.1879)
• Lars Knutsen, shipowner (b.1884)
• Magnus Olsen, linguist and professor of Norse philology (b.1878)
• Ulrik Olsen, politician and Minister (b.1885)
• Didrik Arup Seip, linguist and professor (b.1884)

See also

References

1. "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
2. Kristiansen, Tom. "Per Askim". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
3. Losnedahl, Kari Gaarder. "Agnes Mowinckel". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
4. Grepstad, Ottar (ed.). "Knut Markhus". Allkunne (in Norwegian). Nynorsk kultursentrum. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
5. Helle, Knut (ed.). "Anton Beinset". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 22 March 2014.

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