1952 in Norway

Events in the year 1952 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Haakon VII
 * Prime Minister – Oscar Torp (Labour Party)

Events

 * 7 January – 15 people are killed in a mine explosion in Svalbard.
 * 14–25 February – 1952 Winter Olympics are held in Oslo.
 * Around April 4 five Norwegian seal hunting vessels went down in a storm in the West Ice. The West Ice accidents claimed 78 lives in total.
 * 24 November – Folketeatret (lit. The People's Theatre) opened in Oslo.

Sports

 * Olaf Barda, chess player, becomes the first Norwegian to be awarded the title of International Master

Film

 * 20 March – Thor Heyerdahl received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 24th Academy Awards for the Kon-Tiki film.

Notable births

 * 1 January – Aksel Nærstad, politicial activist and advisor (died 2022).
 * 25 January – Inga Balstad, politician
 * 11 March – Vigdis Giltun, politician
 * 6 March – Nils Johan Ringdal, author and historian (died 2008)
 * 15 April – Ragnar Hovland, novelist, essayist, poet, and writer of children's books.
 * 25 April – Ketil Bjørnstad, pianist and composer
 * 2 May – Gunda Johansen, politician
 * 13 May – Lars Amund Vaage, author and playwright
 * 19 May – Guri Ingebrigtsen, politician (died 2020)
 * 19 June – Sidsel Endresen, jazz singer
 * 25 June – Radka Toneff, jazz singer (died 1982)
 * 10 July – Kari Husøy, politician
 * 18 July – Per Petterson, novelist
 * 27 July – Torfinn Bjarkøy, civil servant
 * 8 August – Jostein Gaarder, author
 * 11 August – Finn Sletten, jazz drummer
 * 19 August – Lillian Müller, model and actress
 * 9 September – Per Jørgensen, jazz trumpeter
 * 18 September – Gunn Olsen, politician
 * 23 September – Unni Holmen, artistic gymnast.
 * 25 October – Helen Fløisand, politician
 * 25 October – Tove Nilsen, writer.
 * 8 November – Carl Haakon Waadeland, musicologist and drummer
 * 11 November – Ole Robert Sunde, writer.
 * 18 November – Gerd Janne Kristoffersen, politician
 * 28 November – Ole Thomsen, jazz guitarist
 * 16 December – Jon Laukvik, organist

Full date unknown

 * Anne-Lise Bakken, politician and Minister
 * Magnus Takvam, journalist

Notable deaths

 * 11 February – Ola Torstensen Lyngstad, politician (born 1894)
 * 14 February – Johan Clementz, boxer (born 1894)
 * 19 February – Knut Hamsun, author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (born 1859)
 * 13 March – Johan Nygaardsvold, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (born 1879)
 * 20 April – Sigurd Maseng, diplomat (born 1894)
 * 14 May – Carl Julius Alvin Westerlund, politician (born 1885)
 * 13 June – Andreas Brecke, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (born 1879)
 * 3 August – Even Ulving, painter (born 1863).
 * 26 September – Aslak Nilsen, politician (born 1898).
 * 28 September – Ingvald Tøndel, politician (born 1887)
 * 14 November – Aldor Ingebrigtsen, politician (born 1888)
 * 14 December – Fartein Valen, composer and musical theorist (born 1887)

Full date unknown

 * Einar Borch, landowner and politician (born 1870).
 * Adam Egede-Nissen, politician (born 1868)
 * Christian Wegner Haaland, ship-owner and politician (born 1892)
 * Knut Liestøl, politician and Minister (born 1881)
 * William Martin Nygaard, publisher and politician (born 1865)