1952 in Norway
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Decades: 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s Centuries: 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 1952 in Norwegian football Other events of 1952 List of years in Norway

Events

• Between February 14 and February 25 the 1952 Winter Olympics take place 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.

Arts and literature

Births

• April 25 - Ketil Bjørnstad, pianist
• August 8 - Jostein Gaarder, author

Deaths

• February 19 - Knut Hamsun, author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)