Events in the year 2002 in Norway.

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

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Harald V Harald V ( no, Harald den femte, ; born 21 February 1937) is King of Norway. He acceded to the throne on 17 January 1991. Harald was the third child and only son of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden. He was second in the lin ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

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Kjell Magne Bondevik Kjell Magne Bondevik (; born 3 September 1947) is a Norway, Norwegian Lutheranism, Lutheran Religious minister, minister and Politics of Norway, politician. As leader of the Christian Democratic Party (Norway), Christian Democratic Party, he serv ...

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Events

February

* 27 February –

Metropol TV Metropol TV was a local TV channel for Oslo, Norway but could be seen in the rest of the country through cable TV. The channel was started in 1999 and ceased broadcasting in February 2002 due to financial difficulties. Metropol TV cast shows li ...

ceases broadcasting because of financial difficulties.

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April

May

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Ari Behn Ari Mikael Behn (; , or ; 30 September 1972 – 25 December 2019) was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist. Known as Mikael Bjørshol until 1996, Behn achieved early literary success with his 1999 short story collection ''Trist so ...

marries

Princess Märtha Louise of Norway Princess Märtha Louise of Norway (born 22 September 1971) is a member of the Norwegian royal family, a businesswoman and a self-described clairvoyant. The only daughter of King Harald V and Queen Sonja, she is fourth in the line of successi ...

Nidaros Cathedral Nidaros Cathedral ( no, Nidarosdomen / Nidaros Domkirke) is a Church of Norway cathedral located in the city of Trondheim in Trøndelag county. It is built over the burial site of Olav II of Norway, King Olav II (c. 995–1030, reigned 1015–102 ...

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

June

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World Bank Oslo 2002 Protests During the World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics in Oslo, Norway in 2002 large globalization-critical protests were held. A coalition of many organizations organized an alternative conference and a demonstration with more tha ...

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Popular culture

Sports

Music

Film

Literature

Lars Saabye Christensen Lars Saabye Christensen (born 21 September 1953 in Oslo) is a Norwegian/Danish author. Saabye Christensen was raised in the Skillebekk neighbourhood of Oslo, but lived for many years in Sortland in northern Norway; both places play a major r ...

is awarded the

Nordic Council Literature Prize The Nordic Council Literature Prize is awarded for a work of literature written in one of the languages of the Nordic countries, that meets "high literary and artistic standards". Established in 1962, the prize is awarded every year, and is worth ...

, for ''

The Half Brother ''The Half Brother'' ( no, Halvbroren) is a 2001 novel by the Norwegian writer Lars Saabye Christensen. The story follows a man who grows up in Oslo after World War II, with his mother, grandmother, great grandmother and half brother. The novel ...

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Television

Notable births

*21 February – Marcus & Martinus Gunnarsen, two identical brothers singers *12 May – Birgitta Elisa Oftestad, cellist

Notable deaths

*1 January – Arne Røgden, bobsledder (born 1917) *24 January –

Ragnar Horn Ragnar Horn (10 April 1913 – 24 January 2002) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. In 1946 he became the first chairman of the Youth of the Christian People's Party, the youth wing of the Christian Democratic Party ...

, politician (born 1913) *31 January –

Jens P. Flå Jens P. Flå (born 13 February 1923 in Rennebu, died 31 January 2002) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. Flå was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag in 1973, and he was re-elected on two occasions ...

, politician (born 1923) *1 February – Sigurd Berge, composer (born 1928) *18 April –

Thor Heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl KStJ (; 6 October 1914 – 18 April 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany and geography. Heyerdahl is notable for his ''Kon-Tiki'' expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000&nb ...

, ethnographer and adventurer (born 1914) *29 April – Sverre Bratland, military leader (born 1917) *1 May –

Birger Tvedt Birger Tvedt (1 February 1910 – 1 May 2002) was a Norwegian sports medical and physiotherapist also known as the "Biggen". He was the son of a deacon Sigvard Andreas Tvedt (1876–1965) and Martha Carens Kruse (1882-1966) and married to phy ...

, physician (born 1910). *28 May – Kai Paulsen, journalist, photographer and computer collector (born 1947) *29 June –

Ole-Johan Dahl Ole-Johan Dahl (12 October 1931 – 29 June 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist. Dahl was a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along w ...

, computer scientist (born 1931) *10 August –

Kristen Nygaard Kristen Nygaard (27 August 1926 – 10 August 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician. Internationally, Nygaard is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the programming ...

, mathematician, computer programming language pioneer and politician (born 1926) *26 September –

Eleonore Bjartveit Eleonore Bjartveit (11 July 1924 – 26 September 2002) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. Born in Alta, she worked as a medical doctor for several years, before entering politics. Bjartveit was elected to the Norw ...

, politician and Minister (born 1924) *10 October – Sverre L. Mo, politician (born 1915) *15 November – Hans Jørgen Toming, visual artist and designer (b.

1933 Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...

). *24 November – Odd Lien, newspaper editor and politician (born 1915) *5 December – Magnar Sætre, politician (born 1940) *20 December –

Tore Tønne Tore Tønne (5 March 1948 – 20 December 2002) was the Norwegian Minister of Health and Social Affairs (responsible for social affairs) from 2000 to 2001 in Jens Stoltenberg's first cabinet. Tønne committed suicide after newspaper writings abo ...

, politician and Minister (born 1948) *21 December –

Harald U. Lied Harald Ulfert Lied (29 April 1927 – 21 December 2002) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Sarpsborg. Outside politics he worked in forestry and farming. He was active in the Norwegian Agrarian Association. On t ...

, politician (born 1927) *24 December –

Kjell Aukrust Kjell Aukrust (19 March 1920 – 24 December 2002) was a Norwegian author, poet, artist and humorist. Aukrust is principally known for his Flåklypa stories and Flåklypa drawings. Personal life Aukrust was born in Alvdal in Hedmark, Norway as ...

, author, poet and artist (born 1920).

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Odd Chr. Gøthe Odd means unpaired, occasional, strange or unusual, or a person who is viewed as eccentric. Odd may also refer to: Acronym * ODD (Text Encoding Initiative) ("One Document Does it all"), an abstracted literate-programming format for describing X ...

, civil servant and politician (born 1919) *

Johan Berthin Holte Johan Berthin Holte (19 February 1915 – 1 April 2002) was a Norwegian businessperson. He was born in Notodden as a son of chief administrative officer Peder Olaus Holte (1875–1943) and Lorentze Indorff (1890–19). In 1944 he married artist E ...

, businessperson (born 1915) * Nils Peder Langvand, judge (born 1929) *

Oddrunn Pettersen Oddrunn Kristine Helene Pettersen (5 March 1937 – 30 November 2002) was a Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethn ...

, politician and Minister (born 1937) *

Fritz Røed Fritz Røed (15 August 1928 – 20 December 2002) was a Norwegian sculptor. He is most associated with his work, '' Sverd i fjell'', the commemorative monument that symbolizes the unification of the nation of Norway. Biography Røed was bo ...

, sculptor (born 1928) *

Einar Skinnarland Einar Skinnarland DCM (27 April 1918 – 5 December 2002) was a Norwegian resistance fighter during the Second World War. Einar Skinnarland was born in Vinje, in Telemark county, Norway. Skinnarland graduated from Telemark Engineering ...

, resistance fighter (born 1918) * Knut Tjønneland, politician (born 1907)

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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...