Notable Deaths
- January 3 – Bjarne Aagaard Strøm, politician (b. 1920)
- January 4 – Bjørn Odmar Andersen, soccer player (b. 1943)
- January 14 – Bjørn Paulson, high jumper and jurist (b. 1923)
- January 14 – Carsten Thomassen, journalist, killed in terrorist attack (b. 1969)
- January 19 – Astrid Løken, entomologist (b. 1911)
- January 23 – Stein Rønning, karateka (b. 1965)
- January 24 – Johannes Heggland, author and politician (b. 1919)
- January 26 – Einar Sverre Pedersen, aviator (b. 1919)
- January 28 – Dagfinn Grønoset, author (b. 1920)
- January 28 – Marie Takvam, author and actor (b. 1926)
- February 9 – Nils Retterstøl, psychiatrist (b. 1924)
- February 10 – Ove Jørstad, footballer (b. 1970)
- February 10 – Arne Barhaugen, Nordic combined skier (b. 1932)
- February 10 – Thorleif Arneberg, politician (b. 1922)
- February 15 – Inge Thun, footballer (b. 1945)
- February 15 – Magnar Hellebust, politician (b. 1914)
- February 16 – Per Erik Monsen, politician (b. 1946)
- February 22 – Gerd Olaug Berger, politician (b. 1915)
- March 5 – Erik Wiik-Hansen, yacht racer (b. 1934)
- March 7 – Julius Paltiel, Holocaust survivor (b. 1924)
- March 10 – Marianne Gullestad, social anthropologist (b. 1946)
- March 14 – Ingvald Ulveseth, politician (b. 1924)
- March 14 – Guri Tambs-Lyche, activist (b. 1917)
- March 16 – Victor Sparre, artist (b. 1919)
- March 22 – Arne Skarpsno, "Father of the street children" (b. 1926)
- March 24 – Odin Sivertsen, politician (b. 1914)
- March 30 – Halvor Roll, writer (b. 1929)
- March 31 – Stein Haugen, discus thrower (b. 1933)
- April 5 – Oskar Edøy, politician (b. 1916)
- April 9 – Haaken A. Christensen, art collector (b. 1924)
- April 11 – Magne Haraldstad, politician (b. 1937)
- April 19 – Klaus Halvorsen, politician (b. 1942)
- April 21 – Ola M. Hestenes, politician (b. 1919)
- April 23 – Haagen Ringnes, journalist and author (b. 1928)
- April 29 – Julie Ege, actress and model (b. 1943)
- May 5 – Astrid Gunhilde Karlsen, politician (b. 1920)
- May 15 – Tove Billington Bye, politician (b. 1928)
- May 15 – Ottar Grønvik, philologist and runologist (b. 1916)
- May 18 – Odd Strand, civil servant (b. 1925)
- May 19 – Kjell Kristian Rike, sports commentator (b. 1944)
- June 2 – Geir Kjetsaa, literary historian, translator and author (b. 1937)
- June 9 – Christian Lerche, physician (b. 1917)
- June 11 – Gunnar Solum, politician (b. 1929)
- June 15 – Ole-Jørgen Nilsen, actor and theatre director (b. 1936)
- June 19 – Antonio Bibalo, Italian-born pianist and composer (b. 1922)
- June 22 – Odd Aukrust, economist (b. 1915)
- June 22 – Jens Petter Ekornes, entrepreneur and politician (b. 1942)
- June 22 – Hans Haga, agrarian leader (b. 1924)
- June 22 – Einar W. Sissener, businessperson (b. 1929)
- June 26 – Asbjørn Haugstvedt, politician (b. 1926)
- June 27 – Sasha Gabor, Hungarian-born pornographic actor (b. 1945)
- June 30 – Annemarie Lorentzen, politician (b. 1921)
- July 3 – Harald Heide-Steen Jr., actor, comedian and singer (b. 1939)
- July 8 – Erling Rønneberg, resistance member and politician (b. 1923)
- July 9 – Hans Hjelle, politician (b. 1916)
- July 10 – Kåre Rodahl, physician (b. 1917)
- July 14 – Henki Kolstad, actor (b. 1915)
- July 21 – Knut Boye, civil economist (b. 1937)
- July 30 – Erik Himle, civil servant and politician (b. 1924)
- July 30 – Terje Thoen, ice hockey player (b. 1944)
- August 1 – Tore Breda Thoresen, theatre director (b. 1924)
- August 2 – Rolf Bae, mountaineer (b. 1975)
- August 2 – Helga Gitmark, politician (b. 1929)
- August 2 – Kåre Grøndahl Hagem, politician (b. 1915)
- August 8 – Ann-Mari Aasland, politician (b. 1915)
- August 12 – Helge Hagerup, writer (b. 1933)
- August 15 – Thor Pedersen, rower (b. 1924)
- August 18 – Ole Frithjof Klemsdal, politician (b. 1923)
- September 2 – Andreas Zeier Cappelen, politician (b. 1915)
- September 6 – Aril Edvardsen, evangelical preacher and missionary (b. 1938)
- September 11 – Nils Johan Ringdal, historian (b. 1952)
- September 14 – Knut S. Heier, geochemist (b. 1929)
- September 23 – Arne Haugestad, barrister (b. 1935)
- September 27 – Olaf Poulsen, speed skater and official (b. 1920)
- September 28 – Ivar Kåre Mathisen, politician (b. 1921)
- October 6 – Anne Margrethe Strømsheim, resistance member (b. 1914)
- October 18 – Tormod Haugen, author (b. 1945)
- October 14 – Bodil Finsveen, politician (b. 1934)
- October 23 – Liv Marit Moland, politician (b. 1948)
- October 30 – Nils Kåre Jacobsen, publisher (b. 1929)
- November 8 – Bodil Aakre, jurist and politician (b. 1922)
- November 14 – Knut Bjørnsen, sports commentator and journalist (b. 1932)
- November 24 – Rolf Ketil Bjørn, businessperson and politician (b. 1938)
- December 13 – Kjartan Slettemark, artist (b. 1932).
- December 15 – Anne-Catharina Vestly, children's author (b. 1920)
- December 27 – Arild Andresen, footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1928)
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