1953 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch – Haakon VII
• Prime Minister – Oscar Torp

  Events

• 1 June –The first Bergen International Festival opens.
• 16 July – Parliament voted to move the main base for the Navy from Horten to Bergen.
• 11 September – The Norwegian Consumer Council established
• 12 October – The 1953 Parliamentary election takes place.
• 15 November – Four men suspected of spying for the Soviet Union were arrested in Kirkenes.
• The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature is founded.

  Popular culture

Sports

Music

Film

Literature

Notable births

• 6 January – Jon Eberson, jazz guitarist
• 10 February – Aud Folkestad, politician
• 18 February – Erling Aksdal, jazz pianist
• 6 March – Jan Kjærstad, author
• 13 April Tom Olstad, jazz drummer
• 24 April – Nina Bjerkedal, civil servant
• 24 April – Øyvind Sandberg, film director
• 8 May – May Hansen, politician
• 12 May – Odd Riisnæs, jazz saxophonist
• 2 June Vidar Johansen, jazz saxophonist
• 30 June Ståle Wikshåland, musicologist
• 13 July – Sigurd Ulveseth, jazz upright bassist
• 19 September – Olav Berstad, diplomat
• 21 September – Lars Saabye Christensen, author
• 7 November – Erik Balke, jazz saxophonist
• 7 December – Arne Nævra, photographer and politician, member of the Storting.

  Full date unknown

• Erik Blücher, political activist
• Nils Lid Hjort, statistician and professor
• Per Hannevold, principal bassoonist of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
• Stein Erik Lunde, novelist, children's writer, biographer and textbook writer.

  Notable deaths

• 11 January – Hans Aanrud, author, poet and playwright
• 9 March – Ole Iversen, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist
• 2 April – Halfdan Hansen, sailor and Olympic gold medallist
• 18 June – Thomas Thorstensen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist
• 24 June – Jentoft Jensen, politician
• 12 July – Otto Olsen, rifle shooter and Olympic gold medallist
• 18 July – Ole Jensen Rong, politician
• 4 September – Magdalon Monsen, soccer player and Olympic bronze medallist
• 12 September – Sigrid Boo, author
• 9 December – Issay Dobrowen, composer and conductor.

  Full date unknown

• Solveig Haugan, stage and movie actress
• Kristen Holbø, painter and illustrator
• Christian Pierre Mathiesen, politician and Minister
• Jonas Pedersen, politician
• Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen, physician and orthopaedic surgeon in America
• Alfred Trønsdal, politician
• Eirik Vandvik, professor in literature