1971 in Norway

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Events in the year 1971 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Olav V
• Labour Party
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Events

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• Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.
• 17 March – Bratteli's First Cabinet was appointed.
• 22 May – The crew quarters of the Norwegian passenger ship MS Meteor catches on fire outside Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 32 people of the ship's crew are killed in the event.
• 22 September – Princess Märtha Louise of Norway is born.

Popular culture

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Literature

• Per Arneberg, poet, prosaist and translator is awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize.^[1]
• Gunvor Hofmo, writer and poet, is awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for Gjest på jorden (Guest on Earth).
• Stein Mehren, poet, novelist, essayist and playwright, is awarded the Dobloug Prize literature award.
• Arild Nyquist, novelist, poet, children's writer and musician, is awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment literary prize.^[2]

Notable births

• 1 February – Harald Brattbakk, footballer and pilot
• 18 February – May Britt Lagesen, politician.^[3]
• 18 March – Hilde Synnøve Lid, freestyle skier.^[4]
• 24 March – Bengt Rune Strifeldt, politician.^[5]
• 3 April – Ingvild Vaggen Malvik, politician
• 5 April – Åslaug Sem-Jacobsen, politician.^[6]
• 6 April – Mona Grudt, model and 1990 Miss Universe
• 13 May – Espen Lind, songwriter, producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist
• 16 May – Pia Wedege, luger.^[7]
• 15 June – Vibeke Larsen, politician.^[8]
• 28 June – Dagrun Eriksen, politician
• 28 June – Steinar Opstad, poet.^[9]
• 20 July – Guro Angell Gimse, politician
• 9 September – Ann Cathrin Eriksen, handball player.^[10]
• 12 September – Tom Strømstad Olsen, politician
• 29 September – Frida Melvær, politician.^[11]
• 2 October – Anette Igland, footballer
• 5 October – Ole Robert Reitan, businessperson.^[12]
• 18 October – Line Henriette Holten Hjemdal, politician
• 17 November – Tonje Sagstuen, handball player.^[13]
• 22 November – Geir Hartly Andreassen, cinematographer
• 22 November – Gunnar Wærness, poet.^[14]
• 2 December – Linn T. Sunne, children's writer.^[15]
• 10 December – Arnfinn Kristiansen, bobsledder.^[16]

Notable deaths

• 16 January – Halfdan Gran Olsen, rower and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1910)
• 29 January – Bjarne Guldager, sprinter (b.1897)
• 31 January – Gunnar Jahn, jurist, economist and politician (b.1883)
• 21 February – Johs Haugerud, politician (b.1896)
• 24 February – Hartvig Svendsen, politician (b.1902)
• 1 March – Harald Damsleth, cartoonist, illustrator and ad-man (b.1906)
• 11 March – Julius Sundsvik, novelist and newspaper editor (b.1891)
• 1 April – Hans Svarstad, politician (b.1883)
• 2 May –
  International Master
  (b.1909)
• 24 May – Haakon Hansen, politician (b.1907)
• 1 June – Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff, communist (b. 1922)
• 2 June – Per Mathiesen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (b.1885)
• 26 June – Halvor Birkeland, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1894)
• 29 June –
  Thorstein John Ohnstad Fretheim
  , politician (b.1886)
• 15 July – Nic. Stang, art historian and writer (b.1908)
• 16 July – Birger Brandtzæg, merchant and owner of a fishing station (born 1893).^[17]
• 19 July – Hans Kristian Bromstad, politician (b.1903)
• 20 July – Olaf Ingebretsen, gymnast and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1892)
• 6 August – Finn Moe, politician (b.1902).^[18]
• 19 August – Arthur Sundt, politician (b.1899)
• 4 September – Bjarne Lyngstad, politician and Minister (b.1901)
• 23 September – Signy Arctander, statistician and economist (born 1895).^[19]
• 29 September – Johannes Lid, botanist (b.1886).^[20]
• 5 October –
  Marit Hemstad
  , sprinter (b.1928)
• 5 October – Marit Øiseth, cross country skier (b.1928)
• 17 October – Leif Grøner, banker and politician (b.1884)
• 22 October – Håkon Ellingsen, rower and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1894)
• 18 November – Leif Bjorholt Burull, politician (b.1895)
• 24 November – Nils Hønsvald, politician and Minister (b.1899)
• 2 December – Erling Viksjø, architect (born 1910).^[21]
• 10 December – Arne Langset, politician (b.1893)
• 12 December – Kristian Johan Bodøgaard, politician (b.1885)

See also

References

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