Notable Deaths
- 9 January - Jan Østervold, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (born 1876)
- 11 January - Nils Uhlin Hansen, long jumper and resistance member (born 1919)
- 5 February - Ludvik Buland, trade unionist (born 1893)
- 8 February - Karl Marthinsen, commander of Statspolitiet and Sikkerhetspolitiet in Norway during the Nazi occupation (born 1896)
- 9 February - Kaare Sundby, engineer, resistance member, executed (born 1905)
- 9 February - Jon Vislie, lawyer, executed as a reprisal (born 1896)
- 13 February - Adolf Bogstad, resistance member, executed (born 1920)
- 13 February - Arvid Hansen, resistance member, executed (born 1916)
- 5 March - Per Lie, labour activist (born 1907)
- 11 March - Leif Tronstad, scientist, intelligence officer and military organizer (born 1903)
- 17 March - Henry Gundersen, resistance member, executed (born 1920)
- 17 March - Kåre Olafsen, resistance member, executed (born 1920)
- 17 March - Frank Olsen, resistance member, executed (born 1922)
- 30 April - Worm Hirsch Darre-Jenssen, engineer, politician and Minister (born 1870)
- 7 May - Christian Albrecht Jakhelln, businessperson and politician (born 1863)
- 8 May - Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar during the German military occupation of Norway, suidice (born 1898)
- 11 May - Jonas Lie, politician and Minister, collaborator (born 1899)
- 27 June - Kai Holst, resistance fighter (born 1913)
- 17 August - Reidar Haaland, police officer and collaborator, executed (born 1919)
- 24 October - Vidkun Quisling, army officer, politician and Minister-President of Norway, executed (born 1887)
- 16 September - Oluf Wesmann-Kjær, rifle shooter (born 1874)
- 1 November - Olaf Sæther, rifle shooter and Olympic gold medallist (born 1872)
- 20 November - Jacob Thorkelson, elected official, naval officer and medical doctor in America (born 1876)
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