1960 in Norway
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Events in the year 1960 in Norway.
Incumbents
Events
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- NRK began its regular television broadcasts.
Arts and literature
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Births
January to June
- 7 February - Ingunn Foss, politician
- 29 March - Sonja Mandt-Bartholsen, politician
- 25 June - Randi Karlstrøm, politician
- 26 June - Rigmor Aasrud, politician
July to December
- 21 July - Brynjar Aa, dramatist
- 2 September - Kristin Halvorsen, politician and Minister
- 4 September - Ragnhild Aarflot Kalland, politician
- 18 September - Nils Petter Molvær, jazz trumpeter, composer and producer
- 18 December - Niels Christian Geelmuyden, journalist and writer
- 11 December - Frode Grytten, writer and journalist
Full date unknown
- Øystein Alme, author
- Per Bergersen, musician (d.1990)
Deaths
January to June
- 15 January - Carl Fredrik Holmboe, engineer (b.1882)
- 15 May - Rolf Jacobsen, boxer (b.1899)
- 22 May - Anders Tjøstolvsen Noddeland, politician (b.1885)
- 25 June - Carl Alfred Pedersen, gymnast and triple jumper (b.1882)
July to December
- 22 July - Hans Nordvik, rifle shooter and Olympic gold medallist (b.1880)
- 29 July - Kristian Østervold, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1885)
- 14 October - Sigurd Hoel, author and publishing consultant (b.1890)
- 13 December - Christopher Hornsrud, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (b.1859)
- 13 December - Einar Jansen, historian, genealogist and archivist (b.1893)
- 17 December - Arne Sejersted, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1877)
- 18 December - Trygve Schjøtt, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1882)
- 28 December - Karl Eugen Hammerstedt, politician (b.1903)
Full date unknown
- Bodil Katharine Biørn, missionary known as Mother Katharine (b.1871)
- Eilert Falch-Lund, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1875)
- Gunnar Kaasen, musher, delivered diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska in 1925, as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the city from an epidemic (b.1882)
- Gabriel Kielland, architect, painter and designer (b.1871)
- Jakob Nilsson Vik, politician and Minister (b.1882)
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