1976 in Norway

← 1975 1974 1973 1976 in Norway → 1977 1978 1979
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Events in the year 1976 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Olav V
• Prime Minister - Trygve Bratteli (Labour Party) until 15 January, Odvar Nordli (Labour Party)

Events

• 15 January - Odvar Nordli becomes Prime Minister of Norway
• 15 January – Nordli's Cabinet was appointed.
• 18 January – A 6.2-magnitude earthquake occurs in Svalbard.
• 25 May - Conscription age in Norway is lowered from 20 to 19 years of age.

Popular culture

Film

Main article: Norwegian films of the 1970s § 1976

Literature

• Karin Bang, poet and novelist, is awarded the Aschehoug Prize literature award.
• Finn Carling, novelist, playwright, poet and essayist, is awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment literature prize.

Notable births

• 10 March - Ane Brun, singer-songwriter
• 10 April - Jan Werner Danielsen, singer (d.2006)
• 22 June - Silja Ekeland Bjørkly, politician
• 26 June - Mette Davidsen, team handball player
• 17 October - Kjartan Salvesen, singer
• 29 November - Elisabeth Hilmo, handball player.

Notable deaths

Lars Onsager

• 5 February - Harald Stenerud, hammer and discus thrower (b.1897)
• 2 March - Narve Bonna, ski jumper and Olympic silver medallist (b.1901)
• 10 March - Einar Ræder, long jumper (b.1896)
• 12 March - Petter Carl Reinsnes, politician (b.1904)
• 4 April - Nils Emaus Nilsen, politician (b.1886)
• 8 April - Brynjulv Sjetne, politician (b.1917)
• 9 May - Jens Bjørneboe, writer (b.1920)
• 19 May - Tønnes Oksefjell, politician (b.1901)
• 19 May – Theo Findahl, teacher and journalist (born 1891).
• 19 June - Peder Ree Pedersen, politician (b.1913)
• 19 July - Oliver Dahl-Goli, politician (b.1897)
• 30 July - Sverre Offenberg Løberg, politician (b.1905)
• 4 September - Sverre Bernhard Nybø, politician (b.1903)
• 7 September - Birger Halvorsen, high jumper (b.1905)
• 21 September - Jens Salvesen, sailor and Olympic silver medallist (b.1881)
• 5 October - Lars Onsager, physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b.1903)
• 29 October - Magnus Herseth, rower and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1892)
• 28 November - Jens E. Ekornes, businessperson (b.1908)

Full date unknown

• Ludvig G. Braathen, shipping and airline magnate (b.1891)
• Edvard Drabløs, actor and theatre director (b.1883)
• Bjarne Eriksen, businessperson (b.1886)
• Sigurd Eriksen, painter (b.1884)
• Kristian Fjeld, politician and Minister (b.1887)
• Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (b.1889)
• Erik Kristen-Johanssen, jurist and theatre director (b.1901)
• Arvid Noe, sailor and truck driver, one of the first non-Africans known to have died from AIDS (b.1946)
• Leif J. Sverdrup, civil engineer and military officer in America (b.1898)