Notable Deaths
- 13 March - Lise Lindbæk, war correspondent (b.1905)
- 27 March - Jacob Pedersen, track and field athlete (b.1889)
- 2 April - Arne Torolf Strøm, politician (b.1901)
- 2 May - Petter Jamvold, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1899)
- 7 June - Harald Gram, jurist, politician and genealogist (b.1887)
- 8 June - Olav Bjaaland, ski champion and polar explorer (b.1873)
- 30 June - Lars Sverkeson Romundstad, politician (b.1885)
- 14 August - Thomas Aas, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1887)
- 16 September - Johanne Samueline Pedersen, politician (b.1887)
- 17 September - Henrik Ameln, jurist and politician (b.1879)
- 3 October - Anne Grimdalen, sculptor (b.1899)
- 17 October - Jens Olai Steffensen, politician (b.1891)
- 9 November - Ferdinand Bie, long jumper and Olympic gold medallist (b.1888).
- 13 November - Herman Smitt Ingebretsen, politician (b.1891)
- 21 November - Hjalmar Olai Storeide, politician (b.1901)
- 22 November - Ole Hallesby, Lutheran neo-orthodox pietist (b.1879)
- 4 December - Ingvar Wedervang, economist and statistician (b.1891)
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