1976 in Norway
Events in the year 1976 in Norway.Incumbents
Sports
Music
Film
Literature
- Karin Bang, poet and novelist, is awarded the Aschehoug Prize literature award.
- Finn Carling, novelist, playwright, poet and essayist, is awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment literature prize.
Notable births
- 10 March – Ane Brun, singer-songwriter
- 10 April – Jan Werner Danielsen, singer
- 22 June – Silja Ekeland Bjørkly, politician
- 26 June – Mette Davidsen, team handball player
- 17 October – Kjartan Salvesen, singer
- 29 November – Elisabeth Hilmo, handball player.
Notable deaths
- 5 February – Harald Stenerud, hammer and discus thrower
- 2 March – Narve Bonna, ski jumper and Olympic silver medallist
- 10 March – Einar Ræder, long jumper
- 12 March – Petter Carl Reinsnes, politician
- 4 April – Nils Emaus Nilsen, politician
- 8 April – Brynjulv Sjetne, politician
- 9 May – Jens Bjørneboe, writer
- 19 May – Tønnes Oksefjell, politician
- 19 May – Theo Findahl, teacher and journalist.
- 19 June – Peder Ree Pedersen, politician
- 19 July – Oliver Dahl-Goli, politician
- 30 July – Sverre Offenberg Løberg, politician
- 4 September – Sverre Bernhard Nybø, politician
- 7 September – Birger Halvorsen, high jumper
- 21 September – Jens Salvesen, sailor and Olympic silver medallist
- 5 October – Lars Onsager, physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 29 October – Max Herseth, rower and Olympic bronze medallist
- 28 November – Jens E. Ekornes, businessperson
Full date unknown
- Ludvig G. Braathen, shipping and airline magnate
- Edvard Drabløs, actor and theatre director
- Bjarne Eriksen, businessman
- Sigurd Eriksen, painter
- Kristian Fjeld, politician and Minister
- Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker
- Erik Kristen-Johanssen, jurist and theatre director
- Arvid Noe, sailor and truck driver, one of the first non-Africans known to have died from AIDS
- Leif J. Sverdrup, civil engineer and military officer in America
