Ã…rdal og Sunndal Verk
Årdal og Sunndal Verk or ÅSV is a defunct Norwegian state owned company that operated the aluminum plants in Årdal, Sunndal, Høyanger and Holmestrand. The company was established to take advantage of the hydro-electric power plants in the re ...
is established as a state-run corporation with the task of finishing unfinished industrial facilities started by the German occupational forces.
Popular culture
Sports
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Godtfred Holmvang
Godtfred Holmvang (7 October 1917 – 19 February 2006) was a Norwegian decathlete and skier. He represented IL Tyrving.
He won the 1946 European Championships and finished tenth at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He became Norwegian decathlon champi ...
, decathlete and skier, is awarded the Egebergs Ærespris, for athletes who excel in more than one sport.
Bernhard Riksfjord
Bernhard Riksfjord (born 10 January 1946) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal during the terms 1993–1997 and 1997–2001.
On the local level he ...
, politician
*17 January –
Finn Kristian Marthinsen
Finn Kristian Marthinsen (born 17 January 1946 in Brunlanes
Brunlanes is a parish and former municipality within Larvik municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It was annexed by Larvik on January 1, 1988.
The administrative centre of the munici ...
, politician
*18 January –
Herbjørn Skogstad
Herbjørn Skogstad, pen name Herb (born 18 January 1946) is a Norwegian illustrator and editorial cartoonist.
Career
Born in Nordsinni in Nordre Land on 18 January 1946, a self-trained artist, Skogstad worked as illustrator and cartoonist for ...
, illustrator.
*20 January – Lisbeth Holand, politician
*21 January –
Bjørn Skogstad Aamo
Bjørn Skogstad Aamo (born 21 January 1946) is a Norwegian economist and politician for the Labour Party. He was State Secretary for three non-consecutive terms between 1973 and 1993, and served as Director of the Financial Supervisory Autho ...
, economist and politician
*22 January –
Svein Kristensen
Svein Ragnar Kristensen (born 22 January 1946) is a Norwegian civil servant.
Having graduated as siv.øk. from Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, he embarked on a career as a civil servant, working in the Ministry of Loc ...
, civil servant
*31 January –
Knut Lystad
Knut Ove Lystad (born 31 January 1946) is a Norwegian actor, singer, translator, screenwriter, comedian and occasional director, best known from the comedy trio KLM, alongside Trond Kirkvaag and Lars Mjøen.
Career
Lystad and Mjøen began their ...
, actor, singer, translator, screenwriter, comedian and director
February
*1 February – Øystein Rottem, philologist, literary historian and literary critic (died 2004)
*2 February – Lasse Qvigstad, jurist
*4 February –
Anders Talleraas
Anders Talleraas (born 4 February 1946 in Brattvær) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal in 1977, and was re-elected on four occasions.
Talleraas was a member o ...
, politician
*8 February – Karin Kjølmoen, politician
*11 February – Knut Vollebæk, diplomat and politician
*12 February
** Ingrid Hadler, orienteer and World Champion
** Ulf Thoresen, harness racer (died 1992)
*17 February –
Helge Jordal
Helge Jordal (born 17 February 1946) is a Norwegian actor. He was appointed a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Olav in 2006 for his long career as an actor both on screen and on stage, and for his position as a "grand old man" among Norwegian a ...
, actor and singer
*18 February –
Torny Pedersen
Torny Pedersen (born 18 February 1946 in Namsos) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Nordland in 1997, and has been re-elected on two occasions.
Pedersen was a member of Fauske
or ...
, politician
*19 February –
Tore Schei
Tore Schei (born 19 February 1946) is a Norwegian judge and lawyer. He was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway from 1 August 2002 until he retired in 2016, and was succeeded by Toril Marie Øie.
He was born in Oslo as a son of Andreas Sc ...
Ole Nafstad
Ole Sverre Nafstad (born 20 February 1946 in Bærum, Akershus) is a Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist.
Nafstad competed at the 1971 European Rowing Championships and won a silver medal with the coxless four. He competed at the ...
, rower and Olympic silver medallist
*21 February
**
Marianne Heske
Marianne Heske (born 21 February 1946) is a Norwegian visual artist.
Personal life
Heske was born in Ålesund on 21 February 1946, a daughter of Frithjof Nordstrøm Heske and Sara Margrethe Sønneland. She grew up partly in Ålesund and partl ...
, visual artist.
** Knut Hove, veterinarian
*24 February –
Sverre Stub
Sverre Stub (born 24 February 1946) is a Norwegian diplomat.
He is a siv.øk. by education, and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971. He served at the United Nations delegation in Geneva from 1986 to 1990, at the ...
, diplomat
March
*4 March – Harald Rensvik, civil servant
*5 March
** Klaus Hagerup, author, translator, screenwriter, actor and director (died 2018)
**
Oddvar Stenstrøm
Oddvar Stenstrøm (born 5 March 1946) is a Norwegian journalist and former host of the TV2 debate program ''Holmgang''.
Stenstrøm has worked in a number of different journals and news channels, including the local newspaper '' Akers Avis''/'' Gr ...
, journalist and television host
*9 March –
Britt Harkestad
Britt Harkestad (born 9 March 1946 in Kvam, Hordaland, Kvam) is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party (Norway), Christian Democratic Party.
She was elected to the Storting, Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1985, and was r ...
, politician
*14 March –
Knut Hanselmann
Knut Hanselmann (14 March 1946 – 31 December 2022) was a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party.
Hanselmann was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1989, but was not re-elected in 1993. He had previously served in the ...
, politician (died 2022)
*16 March – Sigmund Groven, classical harmonica player
*19 March –
Roar Grønvold
Roar Grønvold (born 19 March 1946) is a former speed skater from Norway.
Grønvold had his best year in 1972 when he became Norwegian Allround Champion and won silver at the Norwegian Sprint Championships. In addition, he won silver at the 197 ...
, speed skater and Olympic silver medallist
*21 March –
Svein Sturla Hungnes
Svein Sturla Hungnes (born 21 March 1946) is a Norwegian actor, theatre director, and instructor.
Hungnes studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre from 1965 to 1970, and had several small roles at Nationaltheatret during that time. Af ...
, actor, theatre director and instructor
*23 March – Jon Reinertsen, handball player
*28 March – Marianne Gullestad, social anthropologist (died 2008)
April
*8 April –
Ã…ge Korsvold Ã…ge Korsvold (born 8 April 1946) is a Norwegian businessperson and since 2006 chief executive officer of Kistefos.
He was born in Oslo. He is educated in business administration from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He started working for S ...
, businessperson
*10 April – Erling Kittelsen, poet, novelist, children's writer, playwright and translator.
*18 April – Per Erik Monsen, politician (died 2008)
*21 April – Inge Hansen, handball player
*27 April – Tanja Heiberg Storm, diplomat (died 2023).
*30 April –
Lars Vikør
Lars Sigurdsson Vikør (born 30 April 1946) is a Norwegian linguist, translator and educator.
Biography
Lars Vikør is a graduate of the University of Oslo and the University of Leiden. He is a professor of Scandinavian languages and linguistics ...
, linguist
May
*4 May – Gunnar Jordfald, civil servant
*5 May – Svend Wam, film director (died 2017)
*16 May
**
Laila Stien
Laila Stien (born 16 May 1946 in Hemnes, Helgeland) is a Norwegian novelist, poet, author of children's literature and translator from Hemnes. She grew up in Rana and later lived in Finnmark.
Stien made her literary debut in 1979 with the short ...
, novelist, poet and translator. (died 2017)
**
Olav Anton Thommessen
Olav Anton Thommessen (born 16 May 1946) is a Norwegian contemporary composer who has been one of the foremost modernist composers in Norway since the 1970s. His main compositions include ''Et glassperlespill'' and ''Gjennom Prisme''. He was a pro ...
, composer
**
Willy Ustad
Willy Ustad (born 16 May 1946 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian novelist.Willy Ustad in
, novelist
*18 May –
Liv Sandven
Liv Sandven (born 18 May 1946) is a Norwegian politician from the Christian Democratic Party.
During her time as deputy mayor of Trondheim, the third largest city in Norway, she served as mayor from August 2001 to June 2002 in temporary replacemen ...
, politician
*21 May
**
PÃ¥l Bye
PÃ¥l Bye (born 21 May 1946) is a retired Norwegian handball goalkeeper who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: Münch ...
, handball player
**
Arne Fliflet
Arne Fliflet (born 21 May 1946) is a Norwegian jurist and civil servant.
He graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1971. After some years as a university lector at the University of Oslo, he worked as a deputy judge in Sunnfjord from 1974 to 1975. ...
, jurist and civil servant
*23 May – Åge Starheim, politician
June
*10 June –
Sverre J. Hoddevik
Sverre J. Hoddevik (born 10 June 1946, in Selje) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party
The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their ...
, politician
*11 June
**
Gunn Imsen
Gunn Imsen (born 11 June 1946) is a Norwegian educationalist.
She took her undergraduate education at the University of Oslo. She has been a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer ...
, educationalist
** Jan Petersen, politician and Minister
*13 June –
Rune Gerhardsen
Rune Gerhardsen (13 June 1946 – 4 September 2021) was a Norwegian politician, representing the Norwegian Labour Party, and sports leader at Norwegian Skating Association representing Aktiv SK.
Biography
Gerhardsen was a son of Werna and ...
, politician and sports leader (died 2021).
*21 June
**
Trond Kirkvaag
Trond Georg Kirkvaag (21 June 1946 – 16 November 2007) was a Norwegian comedian, actor, impressionist, screenwriter, author, director and television host. During his 39 years at the Norwegian TV network, NRK, he produced numerous comedy ...
, comedian, actor, imitator, screenwriter, author, director and television host (died 2007)
** Harald Norvik, businessperson
*23 June –
Svein Thøgersen
Svein Thorleif Thøgersen (born 23 June 1946) is a retired Norwegian rower. Competing in double scull
A double scull is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat by sculling w ...
, rower and Olympic silver medallist.
July
*11 July –
Kim Traavik
Kim or KIM may refer to:
Names
* Kim (given name)
* Kim (surname)
** Kim (Korean surname)
*** Kim family (disambiguation), several dynasties
**** Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il-sung in 1948
** Kim, Vietnamese fo ...
, diplomat and politician.
*12 July – Bernt Bull, politician and organizational leader.
*13 July –
Jon Westborg
Jon Westborg (born 13 July 1946) is a Norwegian diplomat.
He holds a Master of Philosophy degree from the Cranfield School of Management. Before becoming a diplomat he worked in the Lutheran World Federation, Save the Children Norway, the Strømm ...
, diplomat.
*18 July
**
Gerd Dvergsdal
Gerd Dvergsdal (born 18 July 1946) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Sogn og Fjordane during the term 2001–2005.
On the local level she was mayor of Jøls ...
, politician
** Bjørn Kjos, aviator, lawyer, and business magnate.
**
Svein Ludvigsen
Svein Harald Ludvigsen (born 18 July 1946) is a Norwegian former politician for the Conservative Party and a convicted sex offender. He served as a member of parliament (1989–2001), deputy leader of the Conservative Party (1990–1991), minist ...
, politician and Minister
**
Victor D. Norman
Victor Danielsen Norman (born 18 July 1946 in Risør (town), Risør) is a Norwegian economist, politician for the Conservative Party of Norway, Conservative Party and newspaper columnist. He is a retired professor of economics at the Norwegian Sch ...
, economist and politician.
*19 July – Odd L. Fosseidbråten, civil servant and diplomat.
*22 July –
Jan Grund
Jan Grund (born 22 July 1946) is a Norwegian academic.
He graduated with the cand.oecon. degree in 1972. He was hired as rector of Akershus University College in December 2007, and assumed office in April 2008. He was formerly a professor of heal ...
, academic
August
*2 August – Ivar Frønes, sociologist
*4 August –
Ola Dybwad-Olsen
Ola Dybwad-Olsen (born 4 August 1946) is a former Norwegian footballer who played as a striker for Lyn, Stabæk and Norway. During his fourteen-year career at Lyn he came to be regarded as one of the greatest players in the club's history. He ...
Tone Danielsen
Tone Danielsen (born 15 August 1946) is a Norwegian actress. She was an actress at Den Nationale Scene 1970–1971, the Hålogaland Teater 1971–1975, and from 1975 to the present at the National theatre. She appeared in the film ''Reprise''
She ...
Sigurd Allern
Sigurd Allern (born 5 September 1946) is a Norwegian media theorist and the first professor of journalism at the University of Oslo.Sigurd Al ...
, media theorist and professor of journalism
*8 September – Arent M. Henriksen, politician.
*15 September – Bente Sætrang, textile artist.
*16 September –
Trond Bergh
Trond Bergh (born 16 September 1946) is a Norwegian economic historian, and researcher at the Department of Innovation and Economic Organisation of the BI Norwegian Business School.
Life and work
Bergh was born in Tvedestrand, and took the can ...
Svein Aaser
Svein Aaser (born 7 October 1946) is a former CEO of DnB NOR, the largest financial group in Norway. He resigned on 31 December 2006. He is chair of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 and the National Gallery of Norway
Early career
Aaser ...
Per Rom
Per Rom (born 28 October 1946) is a former Norwegian sprinter who specialized in the 200 and 400 metres.
He finished eighth in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1971 European Championships with his teammates Steinar Mo, Gøte Lundblad and Richard Simo ...
Anne Marit Jacobsen
Anne Marit Jacobsen (born 7 November 1946) is a Norwegian stage and film actress.
She was born in Oslo as the daughter of sculptor Thorbjørn Sigurd Jacobsen and opera singer Randi Heide Steen. She has been assigned to the National Theatre in ...
Haakon Baardsøn Hjelde
Haakon Baardsøn Hjelde (born 7 December 1941) is a Norwegian diplomat.
He was born in Oslo, and is a cand.jur. by education. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1965. After a period as deputy under-secretary of sta ...
Dagfinn Sundsbø
Dagfinn Sundsbø (born 11 December 1946) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
He was born in Lindås as a son of farmers. He is the brother of politician Svein Sundsbø.
He worked in the Norwegian Agrarian Association from 1980 to 2 ...
, politician
*14 December –
Ingse Stabel
Inger-Else "Ingse" Stabel (born 14 December 1946) is a Norwegian judge.
She was born in Oslo as a daughter of Supreme Court Justice Carl Ludovico Stabel (1912–1988) and Karen Andrea Elisabeth Eide (1914–2001). She is a niece of Fredrik Stabel ...
, judge
*24 December –
Vigdis Moe Skarstein
Vigdis Moe Skarstein (born 24 December 1946) is a Norwegian librarian. She was born in Levanger.
She was appointed director of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to:
*Something of, fr ...
, librarian.
*29 December –
Bernhard Ramstad
Bernhard Ramstad (born 29 December 1946) is a Norwegian actor, theatre instructor and director.
He made his debut at Trøndelag Teater in 1966. He was formally employed there from 1968 to 1970, and then worked at Nationaltheatret from 1970 to 1971 ...
Svein Koningen Svein Koningen (born 1946) is an abstract expressionist painter born in Trondheim Norway, childhood in Amsterdam, education in Australia, lives and works in Bruges, Belgium.
Biography
Koningen was born to a Norwegian mother and Dutch father durin ...
Oddbjørn Nordset
Oddbjørn Karmhus Nordset (born 25 March 1946) is a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Centre Party.
He took an agricultural education, graduating from the Norwegian College of Agriculture with the cand.agric. degree in 1973. Before ...
, civil servant and politician
* Arvid Noe, sailor and truck driver, one of the first non-Africans known to have died from AIDS (died 1976)
*
Arne Nore
Arne KÃ¥re Nore (born 1946) is a Norwegian businessperson. He was the key architect behind the creation of Pan Fish, and was chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief adminis ...
, businessperson
Notable deaths
*8 January –
Rasmus Pedersen Thu
Rasmus Pederson Thu (7 January 1864 in Klepp - 8 January 1946 in Stavanger) was a Norwegian photographer noted for documenting life along the coast of Norway and among Norwegian Americans in the late 19th century. He worked for some time with ...
, photographer (born 1864)
*23 January –
Bernt Tunold
Bernt Tunold (February 25, 1877 – January 23, 1946) was a Norwegian painter. Influenced by his early years in a rural environment on the small island of Selja on the west coast of Norway, his paintings, initially inspired by the style of his c ...
, painter (born 1877)
*13 February –
Johan Throne Holst
Johan Throne Holst (7 February 1868 – 13 February 1946), was a Norwegian industrialist and politician for the Liberal Left Party (''Frisinnede Venstre''). He was the founder of Marabou and CEO of Freia, now owned and operated by Mondelez Intern ...
, industrialist and politician (born 1868)
*22 March –
Ragnvald Bødtker
Ragnvald Bødtker (29 June 1859 – 22 March 1946) was a Norwegian engineer, known as the director of log driving in Halden for 42 years.
Personal life
He was born in Overhalla as a son of district stipendiary magistrate Job Dischington Bødtker ...
, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (born 1893)
*4 April –
Klaus Sletten
Klaus Daae Sletten (5 March 1877 – 4 April 1946) was a Norwegian organizational worker and politician who spent his professional career as an editor of magazines and newspapers. He was known as a supporter of the Nynorsk cause.
Early life
He was ...
, organizational worker, editor and politician (born 1877)
*30 April –
Olav Gunnarsson Helland
Olav Gunnarsson Helland (25 August 1875 – 30 April 1946), was a Norwegian Hardanger fiddle maker from Bø in Telemark, Norway.
He was the eldest of Gunnar Olavsson Helland's five sons, four of whom became violin makers. He showed great talent ...
1886
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885.
* January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...
).
*16 May –
Søren Berg Sørensen Moen
Søren Berg Sørensen Moen (17 March 1899 – 16 May 1946) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Troms in 1945, but he died less than one year into the term. He was replaced by Peder ...
, politician (born 1899)
*29 June –
Edle Hartmann
Edle Hartmann (11 March 1862 – 29 June 1946) was a Norwegian writer.
She was born in Larvik to Gudbrand Helenus Hartmann and Fredrikke Dorothea Christiane Michelet, and was a sister of jurist and publicist Egil Olaf Hartmann. She was married ...
, writer (born 1862).
*21 August – Rudolf Gundersen, speed skater (born 1879)
*16 September –
, politician (born 1889)
*13 October – Ole Sæther, rifle shooter and Olympic gold medallist (born 1870)
*6 November – Hans Aall, librarian and museum director (born 1869).
*11 November – Egill Reimers, architect, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (born 1878)
*26 November –
Ola Bertelsen
Ola Bertelsen (10 October 1864 – 26 November 1946) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Liberal Left Party.
Born in Haugesund as the son of a bricklayer, he enrolled as a law student in 1883 and graduated as cand.jur. in 1888. He worked ...
, jurist and politician (born 1864)
*13 December – Egil Eide, actor and director (born 1868)
Ambrotius Olsen Lindvig
Ambrotius Olsen Lindvig (30 September 1855 – 9 May 1946) was the Norwegian Minister of Trade 1912–1913.
References
1855 births
1946 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Ministers of trade and shipping of Norway
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