Deaths
- 23 January - Edvard Munch, painter and printmaker (born 1863)
- 19 February - Reidar Haave Olsen, pilot (born 1923)
- 25 April - Olav Nielsen, boxer (born 1902)
- 12 June - Einar Hærland, military officer, executed (born 1909)
- 24 June - Sigurd Roll, diplomat and former sprinter (born 1893)
- 8 August - Ragnvald Hvoslef, politician (born 1872)
- 14 October - Torleif Torkildsen, gymnast and Olympic bronze medallist (born 1892)
- 13 November - Gregers Gram, resistance fighter and saboteur (born 1917)
- 12 December - Alf Hjort, electrical engineer in America (born 1877)
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“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)