1953 in Norway

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Events in the year 1953 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Haakon VII
• Prime Minister - Oscar Torp (Labour Party)

Events

• 1 June –The first Bergen International Festival opens.
• 16 July – Parliament voted to move the main base for the Navy from Horten to Bergen.
• 11 September - The Norwegian Consumer Council established
• 12 October – The 1953 Parliamentary election takes place.
• 15 November – Four men suspected of spying for the Soviet Union were arrested in Kirkenes.
• The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature (Det Norske Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur) is founded.

Popular culture

Film

Notable births

Stein Erik Lunde

• 10 February - Aud Folkestad, politician
• 6 March - Jan Kjærstad, author
• 24 April - Nina Bjerkedal, civil servant
• 24 April - Øyvind Sandberg, film director
• 8 May - May Hansen, politician
• 19 September - Olav Berstad, diplomat
• 21 September - Lars Saabye Christensen, author

Full date unknown

• Erik Blücher, political activist
• Nils Lid Hjort, statistician and professor
• Stein Erik Lunde, novelist, children's writer, biograper and textbook writer.^[1]

Notable deaths

Hans Aanrud

• 11 January - Hans Aanrud, author, poet and playwright (born 1863)
• 9 March - Ole Iversen, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (born 1884)
• 2 April - Halfdan Hansen, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (born 1883)
• 18 June - Thomas Thorstensen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (born 1880)
• 24 June - Jentoft Jensen, politician (born 1901)
• 12 July - Otto Olsen, rifle shooter and Olympic gold medallist (born 1884)
• 18 July - Ole Jensen Rong, politician (born 1885)
• 4 September - Magdalon Monsen, soccer player and Olympic bronze medallist (born 1910)^[2]
• 12 September - Sigrid Boo, author (born 1898)

Full date unknown

• Solveig Haugan, stage and movie actress (born 1901)
• Kristen Holbø, painter and illustrator (born 1869)
• Christian Pierre Mathiesen, politician and Minister (born 1870)
• Jonas Pedersen, politician (born 1871)
• Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen, physician and orthopaedic surgeon in America (born 1886)
• Alfred Trønsdal, politician (born 1896)
• Eirik Vandvik, professor in literature (born 1904)

References

1. Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Stein Erik Lunde". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
2. "Magdalon Monsen". SR/Olympic Sports. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 November 2012.

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