Notable Deaths
- 21 February - Anders Beer Wilse, photographer (born 1865)
- 2 June - Gudbrand Bernhardsen Tandberg, politician (born 1903)
- 10 June - Sigrid Undset, novelist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928 (born 1882)
- 13 July - Nils Tveit, politician (born 1876)
- 8 August - Eivind Kristoffer Eriksen, politician (born 1893)
- 8 October - Erik Ørvig, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (born 1895)
- 4 December - Ivar Lykke, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (born 1872)
- 22 December - Ole Reistad, military officer and pentathlete (born 1898).
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