1952 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch – Haakon VII
• Prime Minister – Oscar Torp

  Events

• 7 January – 15 died 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 opened in Oslo.

  Popular culture

Sports

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

  Music

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

• 25 January – Inga Balstad, politician
• 11 March – Vigdis Giltun, politician
• 6 March – Nils Johan Ringdal, author and historian
• 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
• 19 June – Sidsel Endresen, jazz singer
• 25 June – Radka Toneff, jazz singer
• 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
• 25 October – Helen Fløisand, politician
• 8 November – Carl Haakon Waadeland, musicologist and drummer
• 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
• 14 February – Johan Clementz, boxer
• 19 February – Knut Hamsun, author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
• 13 March – Johan Nygaardsvold, politician and Prime Minister of Norway
• 20 April – Sigurd Maseng, diplomat
• 14 May – Carl Julius Alvin Westerlund, politician
• 13 June – Andreas Brecke, sailor and Olympic gold medallist
• 28 September – Ingvald Tøndel, politician
• 14 November – Aldor Ingebrigtsen, politician
• 14 December – Fartein Valen, composer and musical theorist

  Full date unknown

• Einar Borch, landowner and politician.
• Adam Egede-Nissen, politician
• Christian Wegner Haaland, ship-owner and politician
• Knut Liestøl, politician and Minister
• William Martin Nygaard, publisher and politician