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2012 in Norway
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Events in the year 2012 in Norway.
Incumbents
Events
January
February
March
- 15 March – Five Norwegian soldiers died in an aircraft accident in northern Sweden.[1]
- 19 March – Six tourists are buried in an avalanche in Gáivuotna Municipality (Kåfjord), Norway, leaving four dead and one missing.[2]
April
- 10 April – A second psychiatric evaluation finds that Breivik's sane enough to face trial for the 2011 terrorist attacks and serve a prison sentence if convicted.[3]
- 16 April – Breivik's trial of confessed perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, starts in Oslo, Norway.[4]
May
- 1 May – Norwegian world swimming champion and Olympic medalist Alexander Dale Oen dies at age 26 after suffering a cardiac arrest during a training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona.[5]
- 15 May – A man sets himself on fire outside the Oslo courthouse where mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for the 2011 Norway attacks.[6]
June
July
- 22 July – Norway commemorates the first anniversary of the 2011 attacks.
August
- 4 August – Death of Sigrid Schjetne in Oslo[7]
September
October
- 17 October – Netflix becomes available to Norwegian consumers.
November
December
- 14 December – The Làhku National Park was established in Gildeskål Municipality, Meløy Municipality and Beiarn Municipality in Nordland county.[8]
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Popular culture
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Music
Sports
- 27 July–12 August: at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Norway won a total of four Olympic medals including two gold medals.[9] Eirik Verås Larsen won the gold medal in canoeing, men's K-1 1000 metres, and the Norwegian team won the women's handball tournament.
- 1–9 August: the 55th Aeronautical pentathlon World Championships are held in Trondheim
Film
Literature
- The novel Olavs draumar by Jon Fosse is published.[10] In 2015, Fosse was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize, for Andvake (2007), Olavs draumar and Kveldsvævd (2014).[11]
- Merethe Lindstrøm is awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize, for Days in the History of Silence.[12]
Television
Anniversaries
- 1 June – 100 years since Hans Dons became the first Norwegian to fly in Norway
- 21 August – 125 years since the Labour Party was established
- 21 September – 100 years since the first flight at Kjeller Airport
- October – 50 years since the first of the popular Stompa movies, Stompa & Co., premiered.
- 12 December – 100 years since the birth of Thorbjørn Egner
- 21 December – 50 years since Norway's first national park, Rondane National Park, was established
- 100 years since Kristine Bonnevie became the first female professor in Norway
- 50 years since the Goethe-Institut first established itself in Norway.[13]
- 250 years since the establishment of Hadeland Glassverk.[14]
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Notable deaths
- 2 January – Liv Godin, missionary (b. 1918)[15][16]
- 2 January – Ambjørg Sælthun, politician (b. 1922)[17]
- 4 January – Totti Bergh, jazz saxophonist (b. 1935)[18]
- 7 January – Dag Heyerdahl Larsen, translator (b. 1965)[19]
- 11 January – Christoffer Selbekk, ski jumper and businessman (b. 1939)[20]
- 12 January – Bjørn G. Andersen, geologist (b. 1924)[21]
- 13 January – Anton Blom, journalist (b. 1924)[22]
- 13 January – Ivar Furu, politician (b. 1928)[23]
- 14 January – Lasse Kolstad, actor (b. 1922)[24]
- 17 January – Tom Tellefsen, actor (b. 1931)[25]
- 18 January – Are Frode Søholt, poet (b. 1974)[26]
- 21 January – Julie Skjæraasen, professor of medicine (b. 1928)[27]
- 23 January – Arne Christiansen, Supreme Court justice (b. 1926)[28]
- 24 January – Arild Haaland, philosopher (b. 1919)[29]
- 25 January – Stig Sæterbakken, writer (b. 1966)[30]
- 30 January – Johannes Ulltveit-Moe, civil servant (b. 1941)[31]
- 31 January – Anders Askildsen Eikås, drummer (b. 1992)
- 1 February – Ingolf Mork, ski jumper (b. 1947)[32]
- 2 February – Leif Hugo Olsson, footballer (b. 1927)[33]
- 6 February – Aage Johansen, speed skater (b. 1919)[34]
- 6 February – Knut Tveit, educationalist (b. 1939)[35]
- 11 February – Siri Bjerke, politician (b. 1958)[36]
- 13 February – Paul Otto Johnsen, politician (b. 1924)[37]
- 13 February – Nils Grinde, musicologist and theatre historian (b. 1927)[38]
- 15 February – Jan Svenneby, chess player (b. 1936)[39]
- 16 February – Ronald Rindestu, politician (b. 1942)[40]
- 16 February – Reidar T. Larsen, politician (b. 1923)[41]
- 18 February – Roald Aas, speed skater (b. 1928)[42]
- 20 February – Knut Thorbjørn Eggen, football manager (b. 1960)[43]
- 20 February – Kjell Thue, radio presenter (b. 1919)[44]
- 20 February – Christoffer Schander, biologist (b. 1960)[45]
- 21 February – Andreas Lunnan, radio and television presenter (b. 1940)[46]
- 22 February – Eivin One Pedersen, jazz pianist and accordionist (b. 1956)[47][48]
- 26 February – Johannes Vågsnes, politician (b. 1923)[49]
- 3 March – Per J. Husabø, politician (b. 1928)[50]
- 8 March – Kristin Bølgen Bronebakk, civil servant (b. 1950)[51]
- 11 March – Kjell Karlsen, odontologist (b. 1921)[52]
- 12 March – Johnny Myrseth, furniture industrialist (b. 1925)[53]
- 13 March – Grete Nordrå, actress (b. 1924)[54]
- 15 March – Edvard Hagerup Bull, composer (b. 1922)[55]
- 19 March – Hugo Munthe-Kaas, officer and politician (b. 1922)[56]
- 19 March – Knut Erik Tranøy, philosopher (b. 1918)[57]
- 21 March – Kåre Tveter, painter (b. 1922)[58]
- 29 March – Liv Buck, trade unionist (b. 1928)[59][60]
- 4 April – Helge Sverre Nesheim, television presenter (b. 1919)[61]
- 4 April – Anne Karin Elstad, novelist (b. 1938)[62]
- 8 April – Aage Grundstad, accordionist (b. 1923)
- 9 April – Harald Gullichsen, translator (b. 1920)[63]
- 10 April – Odd Rikard Olsen, politician and editor (b. 1947)[64]
- 10 April – Svein Aasmundstad, civil servant (b. 1947)[65]
- 13 April – Inge Bråten, skiing coach (b. 1948)[66]
- 14 April – Per G. Stavnum, diplomat (b. 1941)[67]
- 15 April – Birger Lambertz-Nilssen, architect (b. 1941)[68][69]
- 18 April – Åge Storhaug, gymnast (b. 1938)[70]
- 18 April – Kristian Lund, politician (b. 1932)[71]
- 24 April – Thomas Chr. Wyller, political scientist (b. 1922)[72][73]
- 26 April – Astrid Dahlsveen, sculptor (b. 1929)[74]
- 28 April – Stein Johnson, athlete and coach (b. 1921)[75]
- 28 April – Harald Bergseth, soil scientist (b. 1923)[76]
- 29 April – Idar Ulstein, businessperson (b. 1934)[77]
- 29 April – Odd Henning Grønmo, politician (b. 1922)[78]
- 30 April – Finn Benestad, musicologist (b. 1929)[79]
- 1 May – Alexander Dale Oen, swimmer (b. 1985, died in the US)[80]
- 1 May – Siri Myrvoll, archeologist and politician (b. 1944)[81]
- 2 May – Karsten Ekorness, Christian singer (b. 1917)[82][83]
- 4 May – Anne Breivik, artist (b. 1932)[84][85]
- 6 May – Kåre Øistein Hansen, politician (b. 1927)[86]
- 6 May – Arne Berg, architectural historian (b. 1917)[87]
- 8 May – Ingvill Elsebe Raaum, politician (b. 1935)[88]
- 9 May – Gunnar Dybwad, footballer (b. 1928)[89]
- 9 May – Ingvald M. Smith-Kielland, royal servant (b. 1919)[90]
- 10 May – Gunnar Sønsteby, resistance fighter (b. 1918)[91]
- 12 May – Tor Marius Gromstad, footballer (b. 1989)[92] – body found on 14 May
- 13 May – Trond Bråthen, black metal musician (b. 1977)[93]
- 13 May – Paul Engstad, politician and writer (b. 1936)[94]
- 17 May – Jon Istad, biathlete and sport shooter (b. 1937)[95]
- 17 May – Harald Synnes, politician (b. 1931)[96]
- 18 May – Ottar Starheim, journalist (b. 1946)[97]
- 20 May – Svenn Stray, politician (b. 1922)[98]
- 20 May – Nils Jernsletten, philologist (b. 1934)[99]
- 21 May – Andreas Arntzen, barrister (b. 1928)[100]
- 29 May – Ola O. Røssum, politician (b. 1926)[101]
- 3 June – Bengt Wilson, food photographer (b. 1945)[102][103]
- 4 June – Ljubiša Rajić, professor of Norwegian language (b. 1947, died in Serbia)[104]
- 4 June – Per Sunderland, actor (b. 1924)[105]
- 8 June – Johan Kjelsberg, actor (b. 1931)[106]
- 10 June – Eivind Bolle, politician (b. 1923)[107]
- 10 June – Arnfinn Haram, monk and writer (b. 1948)[108]
- 10 June – Gunnar Rogstad, diplomat (b. 1916)[109]
- 12 June – Ervin Løffler, sculptor (b. 1922)[110]
- 15 June – Carl Julius Norstrøm, economist (b. 1936)[111]
- 20 June – Øivind Iversen, furniture designer (b. 1928)[112]
- 21 June – Viggo Johannessen, civil servant (b. 1936)[113]
- 23 June – Arne Wegner Haaland, engineer (b. 1923)[114]
- 25 June – Kjell Sørensen, sport shooter (b. 1930)[115]
- 26 June – Harry W. Kvebæk, trumpeter (b. 1936)[116]
- 27 June – Rolf Lindemann, physician (b. 1942)[117]
- 28 June – Mikal Kirkholt, cross-country skier (b. 1920)[118]
- 28 June – Gunnar Eide, impresario (b. 1920)[119][120]
- 1 July – Odd Todnem, engineer (b. 1922)[121]
- 2 July – Ingebjørg Vaale, politician (b. 1916)[122]
- 2 July – Lisbet Dæhlin, ceramicist (b. 1922)[123]
- 11 July – Bjørn Blakstad, diplomat (b. 1926)[124]
- 2 July – Lisbet Dæhlin, ceramist (died 1922)
- 12 July – Alf Haugland, poet (b. 1924)[125]
- 12 July – Arne Henry Jensen, politician (b. 1927)[126]
- 13 July – Rolf Nilssen, politician (b. 1928)[127]
- 20 July – Hanne Marthe Narud, political scientist (b. 1958)[128]
- 22 July – Håkon Randal, politician (b. 1930)[129]
- 26 July – Rita Drangsholt Christiansen, singer (b. 1917)[130]
- 31 July – Marie Brenden, politician (b. 1938)[131]
- 31 July – Bjørn-Eivind Siem Slettedal, businessperson (b. 1952)[132]
- 2 August – Hans Gabriel Finne, architect (b. 1916)[133]
- 3 August – Odd Isaksen, trade unionist (b. 1924)[134][135]
- 4 August – Sigrid Schjetne, murder victim (b. 1996)[136]
- 7 August – Hans Hammond Rossbach, politician (b. 1931)[137]
- 8 August – Sverre Halvorsen, professor of medicine (b. 1925)[138][139]
- 14 August – Svein Hansen, ice hockey player (b. 1943)[140]
- 16 August – Turid Kjellmann Pedersen, politician (b. 1937)[141]
- 16 August – Aase Bjerkholt, politician (b. 1915)[142]
- 18 August – Eilif Straume, television presenter (b. 1928)[143]
- 18 August – Ansten Samuelstuen, ski jumper (b. 1929, died in the US)[144]
- 18 August – Ivar Svare, physicist (b. 1931)[145]
- 19 August – Arne Christiansen, theatre director (b. 1924)[146]
- 19 August – Ivar Iversen, canoer (b. 1914)[147]
- 26 August – Karsten Anker Solhaug, Salvationist (b. 1914)[148][149]
- 29 August – Grete Lein Lange, textile artist (b. 1926)[150]
- 30 August – Vidar Theisen, weather presenter (b. 1933)[151]
- 30 August – Anton Skulberg, veterinarian and politician (b. 1921)[152]
- 30 August – Kristian Fougner, resistance member (b. 1919)[153]
- 31 August – Enok Palm, mathematician (b. 1924)[154]
- 1 September – Rolf Bjørn Backe, footballer (b. 1934)[155]
- 1 September – Jon Tolaas, poet (b. 1939)[156]
- 5 September – Tore Rasch, handball coach (b. 1935)[157]
- 9 September – Målfrid Longva, politician (b. 1925)[158]
- 9 September – Unni Sæther, athlete (b. 1932)[159]
- 10 September – Sissel Calmeyer, textile artist (b. 1941)[160]
- 11 September – Finn Bergesen, business leader (b. 1945)[161]
- 11 September – Tomas Evjen, film producer (b. 1972)[162]
- 12 September – Alfred Henningsen, politician (b. 1918)[163]
- 13 September – Tor Gundersen, ice hockey player (b. 1935)[164]
- 14 September – Odd Roar Lofterød, yacht racer (b. 1947)[165]
- 16 September – Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, princess (b. 1930)
- 22 September – Helge Barstad, judge and politician (b. 1928)[166]
- 29 September – Knut Sydsæter, economist (b. 1937)[167]
- 2 October – Kaare Ørnung, pianist (b. 1931)[168]
- 2 October – Konrad B. Knutsen, civil servant (b. 1925)[169][170]
- 8 October – Hans Kristian Seip, forester (b. 1920)[171]
- 9 October – Bernt Stangholm, diplomat (b. 1920)[172]
- 12 October – Jorun Askersrud Nygaard, athlete (b. 1929)[173][174]
- 13 October – Rolf Auke, evangelist (b. 1948)[175]
- 17 October – Karin Stoltenberg, geneticist (b. 1931).[176]
- 19 October – Eva Nordland, educator (b. 1921)[177]
- 20 October – Harald Eidheim, social anthropologist (b. 1925)[178]
- 21 October – Sverre Cornelius Lund, accordionist (b. 1931)[179][180]
- 3 November – Odd Børretzen, writer and musician (b. 1926)[181]
- 3 November – Anne-Lise Berntsen, opera singer (b. 1943)[182]
- 4 November – Marit Henie Moe, figure skater (b. 1925)[183]
- 5 November – Morten Ræder, surgeon (b. 1939)[184]
- 5 November – Bjørn Pedersen, resistance member (b. 1939)[185]
- 10 November – Birger Strømsheim, resistance member (b. 1911)[186][187]
- 10 November – Karl Georg Høyer, environmentalist (b. 1946)[188]
- 11 November – Kjellaug Pettersen, women's rights activist (b. 1934)[189]
- 15 November – Frode Thingnæs, jazz trombonist (b. 1940)[190][191]
- 15 November – Kari Blom, rector (b. 1934)[192]
- 18 November – Otto Hauglin, politician (b. 1942)[193]
- 21 November – Stein Schjærven, marketer (b. 1934)[194]
- 24 November – Arne Porsum, sports journalist (b. 1930)[195]
- 26 November – Per Tveit, musician (b. 1951)[196]
- 26 November – Ola Emil Sprakehaug, Pentecostal leader (b. 1951)[197]
- 25 November – Bjørn Winsnes, photographer (b. 1925)[198][199]
- 26 November – Hans Jørgen Walle-Hansen, businessman (b. 1912)[200]
- 27 November – Bjørn Østring, national socialist (b. 1917)[201]
- 2 December – Gitte Dæhlin, artist (b. 1956)[202]
- 6 December – Reginald Norby, diplomat (b. 1934)[203]
- 9 December – Håkon E. Andersen, bishop (b. 1925)[204]
- 12 December – Per Jacobsen, footballer (b. 1924)[205]
- 12 December – Else Marie Jakobsen, artist (b. 1927)[206]
- 18 December – Kari Lihus, speed skater (b. 1935)[207]
- 21 December – Harald Ohrvik, film producer (b. 1940)[208]
- 22 December – Peter Anker, art historian (b. 1922)[209]
- 23 December – Fredrik Thoresen, businessperson (b. 1926)[210]
- 25 December – Birger Tingstad, footballer (b. 1939)[211]
- 25 December – Halfdan Hegtun, politician (b. 1918)[212]
- 27 December – Ivar Ytreland, politician (b. 1926)[213]
- 30 December – Christian Hallén-Paulsen, luger (b. 1945)[214]
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