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Monarch: Charles IV
14 August - Charles Wilhelm Thesen leaves Norway in his 117-ton schooner Albatros, loaded with timber to sell in New Zealand.
16 November - Charles Wilhelm Thesen arrives in Cape Town. After bad weather delays his onward journey, he decides to stay in South Africa.
Arts and literature
3 April - Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor receives its première in Copenhagen, played by Edmund Neupert, with Holger Simon Paulli conducting.
18 February - Johan Hjort, fisheries scientist, marine zoologist and oceanographer (died 1948)
23 March - Waldemar Ager, newspaperman and author in America (died 1941)
1 April - Peter Egge, writer (died 1959)
11 April - Gustav Vigeland, sculptor (died 1943)
5 May - Hjalmar Christensen, writer (died 1925)
8 May - Andreas Tostrup Urbye, politician and Minister (died 1955)
5 July - Holger Sinding-Larsen, architect (died 1938)
31 July - Johannes Irgens, diplomat, politician and Minister (died 1939)
23 August - Rasmus Olai Mortensen, politician and Minister (died 1934)
13 September - Kristen Holbø, painter and illustrator (died 1953)
17 September - Christian Lous Lange, historian, teacher and political scientist, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921 (died 1938)
29 September - Harald Sohlberg, painter (died 1935)
11 October - Johan Aschehoug Kiær, paleontologist and geologist (died 1931)
6 March - Niels Nielsen Vogt, priest and politician (born 1798)
28 October - Gustav Peter Blom, politician (born 1785)
Melchior Schjelderup Olsson Fuhr, politician (born 1790)
Jon Eriksson Helland II, Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1849)
Bernt Sverdrup Maschmann, priest and politician (born 1805)
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