# 1952 in Norway

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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.

## Popular culture
### 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.

### Literature
## Notable births

* 1 January – Aksel Nærstad, political 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)
* 27 June – Asle Amundsen, politician
* 10 July – Kari Husøy, politician
* 18 July – Per Petterson, novelist
* 27 July – Torfinn Bjarkøy, civil servant
* 4 August – Karsten Klepsvik, diplomat (died 2025).
* 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)