1919 in Norway

Events in the year 1919 in Norway.

← 1918 1917 1916 1919 in Norway → 1920 1921 1922
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	List of years in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch – Haakon VII.

Events

• 5–6 October - 1919 Norwegian prohibition referendum.
• Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.
• Production of zinc begins in Glomfjord at the state-owned industrial plant.

Popular culture

Sports

Main article: 1919 in Norwegian football

• Helge Løvland, track and field athlete and gymnast; becomes the second to receive the Egebergs Ærespris, an award presented to Norwegian athletes who excel at two (or more) different sports.

Music

Main article: 1919 in Norwegian music

Film

Main article: List of Norwegian films before 1930 § 1910s

Literature

• The Olav Duun novel I Blinda (The Blind Man) from the work Juvikfolket (The People of Juvik, 1918–23), was published.

Births

Laila Schou Nilsen won the downhill event at the 1936 Olympics.

January to March

• 14 January – Harry Hansen, politician (died 2003)
• 17 January – Per Bergsland, Royal Air Force pilot and prisoner of war (died 1992)
• 31 January – Claus Helberg, resistance fighter and mountain guide (died 2003)
• 4 February – Marta Schumann, writer (died 1994).
• 11 February – Erland Steenberg, politician (died 2009)
• 15 February – Asbjørn Herteig, archeologist (died 2006).
• 2 March – Carl Mortensen, sailor and Olympic silver medallist (died 2005)
• 5 March – Helge Seip, politician (died 2004)
• 17 March – Erik Rinde, jurist and pioneer of social sciences in Norway (died 1994)
• 18 March – Laila Schou Nilsen, speed skater, alpine skier and tennis player (died 1998)

April to June

• 1 April – Olav Brænden, pharmacist (died 1989)
• 13 April – Nils Reinhardt Christensen, film director and screenwriter (died 1990)
• 14 April – Bjarne Berg-Sæther, politician (died 2009)
• 19 April – Asbjørn Lillås, politician (died 1983)
• 21 April – Kristian Fougner, engineer and resistance member (died 2012)
• 25 April – Finn Helgesen, speed skater and Olympic gold medallist (died 2011)
• 6 May – Nils Uhlin Hansen, long jumper and resistance member (died 1945)
• 18 May – Ottar Landfald, politician (died 2009)
• 6 June – Rita Haugerud, politician (died 2014)
• 29 June – Johannes Heggland, author and politician (died 2008)

July to September

• 14 July – Arnold Dyrdahl, bobsledder (died 1973)
• 3 August – Thor Gystad, politician (died 2007)
• 3 August – Ola M. Hestenes, politician (died 2008)
• 4 August – Engly Lie, politician (died 2001)
• 9 August – Liv Andersen, politician (died 1997)
• 13 August – Børre Falkum-Hansen, sailor and Olympic silver medalist (died 2006)
• 25 August – Alf Nordhus, barrister (died 1997)
• 27 August – Bjørn Rørholt, engineer, military officer and resistance member (died 1993).
• 30 August – Joachim Rønneberg, resistance fighter and broadcaster (died 2018)
• 15 September – Eilert Dahl, Nordic skier (died 2004)
• 30 September – Olav O. Nomeland, politician (died 1986)

October to December

• 26 October – Knut Andreas Knudsen, politician (died 2001)
• 4 November – Per Olav Baarnaas, race walker (died 2004).
• 29 November – Aksel Fossen, politician (died 2009)
• 11 December – Elsa Skjerven, politician and minister (died 2005)
• 22 December – Bjarne Orten, civil servant (died 2011)
• 27 December – Gunnar Alf Larsen, politician (died 2003)

Full date unknown

• Odd Chr. Gøthe, civil servant and politician (died 2002)
• Reidar Haaland, police officer and collaborator, executed (died 1945)
• Finn Hødnebø, philologist (died 2007)
• Odd Narud, businessperson (died 2000)
• Olav Nordrå, writer (died 1994)
• Asbjørn Ruud, ski jumper and World Champion (died 1986)
• Aage Samuelsen, evangelist, singer and composer (died 1987)
• Victor Sparre, visual artist (died 2008)
• Jakob Sverdrup, historian (died 1997)

Deaths

• 12 January – Carl Wilhelm Bøckmann Barth, painter (born 1847).
• 25 February – Gulbrand Hagen, newspaper editor and writer in America (born 1864)
• 4 March – Sigurd Mathisen, speed skater and world champion (born 1884)
• 16 April – Anders Nicolai Kiær, statistician (born 1838)
• 22 May – Jens Ludvig Andersen Aars, politician (born 1852)
• 12 June – Alf Collett, writer (born 1844)
• 29 June – Ole Falck Ebbell, architect (born 1839)
• 12 August – Oscar Sigvald Julius Strugstad, politician and Minister (born 1851)
• 22 October – Cathinka Guldberg, Norway's first nurse (born 1840)