1931 in Norway

Incumbents

Monarch - Haakon VII

Prime Minister - Peder Kolstad

Events

27 June – Norway occupied and claimed parts of the then-uninhabited eastern Greenland (also called Erik the Red's Land), claiming that it constituted terra nullius.

Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.

Notable births

10 January - Olaf B. Bjørnstad, ski jumper

27 January - Sissel Lange-Nielsen, writer, literary critic, and journalist

31 January - Ole Gabriel Ueland, politician

22 February - Georg Johannesen, author and professor of rhetoric (died 2005)

4 March - Ludvig Hope Faye, politician

23 March - Kjell Knudsen, politician

2 April - Åslaug Grinde, politician

5 April - Peter R. Holm, poet, author and translator

11 April - Olav Marås, politician

26 April - Øyvind Bjorvatn, politician

26 April - Ola Mikal Heide, botanist

27 April - Vera Louise Holmøy, judge

28 April - Karen Sogn, politician

9 May - Erik Dammann, author and environmentalist

19 May – Leif Raa, illustrator (died 2003).

25 May - Selmer Nilsen, fisherman who spied for the KGB (died 1991)

31 May - Yngvar Løchen, sociologist (died 1998)

5 June - Einar Magnussen, economist and politician (died 2004)

18 June - Eigil Nansen, human rights activist

20 June - Arne Nordheim, composer

8 July - Thorvald Stoltenberg, politician and Minister

24 July - Sverre Holm, actor (died 2005)

5 September - Torstein Slungård, politician

1 October - Tore Haugen, politician

6 October - Johan M. Nyland, politician (died 2007)

11 October - Bjørn Slettan, historian

12 October - Ole-Johan Dahl, computer scientist (died 2002)

6 November - Bjartmar Gjerde, politician

8 November - Ole Knapp, politician and Minister

30 November - Knut Myhre, politician

7 December - Bjørg Lødøen, painter, graphic artist and composer

15 December - Alf Nordvang, actor and theatre director (died 2007)

Notable deaths

31 March - Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (born 1888)

23 April - Nils P. Haugen, a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (born 1849)

26 April - Axel Holst, professor of hygiene and bacteriology (born 1860)

14 August - Olav Johan Sopp, mycologist (born 1860)

1 September - Anders Andersen, politician (born 1846)

27 September - Thorleif Frederik Schjelderup, businessperson (born 1859)

5 November - Ole Edvart Rølvaag, novelist and professor in America (born 1876)

11 November - Marie Hauge, painter (born 1864)

17 December - Hans Nilsen Hauge, priest, politician and Minister (born 1853)

Full date unknown

Sophus Christian Munk Aars, civil servant and writer (born 1841)

Johan Aschehoug Kiær, paleontologist and geologist (born 1869)