1929 in Norway

Events in the year 1929 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Haakon VII.

Events



 * 21 March - Crown Prince Olav (later King Olav) married his cousin, Princess Märtha of Sweden.


 * 8 May
 * Norway annexed the volcanic island Jan Mayen located in the Arctic Ocean.
 * Seamen organize a general strike in opposition to proposed wage cuts.

Notable births



 * 1 January – Fredrik Olsen, shipping magnate
 * 3 January – Grethe Rytter Hasle, planktologist (died 2013)
 * 17 January – Jan Rasmus Skåre, judge (died 2018)
 * 3 February – Arvid Johanson, politician and minister (died 2013)
 * 10 February – Hallgeir Brenden, cross country skier and double Olympic gold medallist (died 2007)
 * 10 February – Einar W. Sissener, businessperson (died 2008)
 * 26 February – Bjørn Skau, politician and minister (died 2013)
 * 4 March – Fredrik Hagemann, geologist and public servant (died 2019).
 * 5 April – Ivar Giaever, physicist, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973
 * 19 April – Guttorm Berge, alpine skier and Olympic bronze medallist (died 2004)
 * 20 April – Knut S. Heier, geochemist (died 2008)
 * 6 May – Jorun Askersrud, cross country skier and athlete (died 2012)
 * 7 May – Arnsten Samuelstuen, ski jumper (died 2012)
 * 10 May – Audun Boysen, middle-distance runner and Olympic bronze medallist (died 2000)
 * 10 May – John Gjerde, politician (died 2005)
 * 28 or 29 May – Dag Frogner, painter and scenographer (died 2015).
 * 31 May – Halvdan Ljøsne, painter (died 2006)
 * 11 June – Per Almar Aas, politician (died 2014)
 * 24 June – Oddvar Barlie, sports wrestler (died 2017).
 * 1 July – Sigurd Berge, composer (died 2002)
 * 8 July – Gunnar Block Watne, engineer and businessperson, introduced prefabricated houses in Norway (died 2016).
 * 13 July – Svein Ellingsen, visual artist and hymnist (died 2020)
 * 18 July – Kai Ekanger, politician (died 2018)
 * 26 August – Willy Arne Wold, politician (died 1996)
 * 24 September – Kåre Rønning, politician (died 1990)
 * 30 September – Kjell Askildsen, writer (died 2021)
 * 30 September – Helga Gitmark, politician (died 2008)
 * 18 October – Inger Sitter, painter and printmaker (died 2015).
 * 19 October – Thorbjørn Kultorp, politician (died 2004)
 * 22 October – Tore Sinding-Larsen, judge (died 2013)
 * 30 November – Leif Haraldseth, trade unionist, politician and minister (died 2019)
 * 13 December – Lars Skytøen, politician and minister (died 2016)
 * 14 December – Magne Lerheim, politician (died 1994)
 * 24 December – Sverre Wilberg, actor (died 1996)

Full date unknown

 * Øystein Elgarøy, astronomer (died 1998)
 * Nils Peder Langvand, judge (died 2002)
 * Gunnar Solum, politician (died 2008)

Notable deaths

 * 6 January – August Herman Halvorsen, politician (born 1866)
 * 22 February – Gunnar Heiberg, playwright (born 1857).
 * 23 March – Rudolf Nilsen, poet and journalist (born 1901)
 * 2 May – Anders Svor, sculptor (born 1864)
 * 24 May – Just Bing Ebbesen, priest and politician (born 1847)
 * 8 June – Ole Larsen Skattebøl, judge and politician (born 1844)
 * 9 July – Hans Andersen Foss, author, newspaper editor and temperance leader in America (born 1851)
 * 1 August – Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram, jurist and politician (born 1846).
 * 12 September – Olaf Hovdenak, long-distance runner (born 1891)
 * 3 November – Olav Aukrust, poet and teacher (born 1883)
 * 19 November – Torleiv Hannaas, philologist (born 1874)
 * 14 December – Sigurd Jørgensen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (born 1887)

Full date unknown

 * Mads Gram, physician (born 1875)
 * Nils Otto Hesselberg, politician (born 1844)
 * Christian Holtermann Knudsen, typographer, newspaper editor, publisher, trade unionist and politician (born 1845)
 * Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou, jurist and professor (born 1845)