1999 in Norway

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Centuries: 18th 19th 20th 21st

Decades: 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

Events in the year 1999 in Norway.

Incumbents

Monarch - Harald V

Prime Minister - Kjell Magne Bondevik (Christian Democratic Party)

Events

1 February - The Coastal Party (Norwegian: Kystpartiet) is founded.

23 April - Arve Beheim Karlsen drowns in Sogndalselva

30 September - Metropol TV starts broadcasting.

26 November - The boat MS Sleipner collided with a rock in the notorious part of the North Sea called "Sletta", just north of the town of Haugesund. The ship sank and 16 of the people on board died.

Saga Petroleum, Norway's third largest petroleum company, is acquired by Norsk Hydro.

Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.

Notable deaths

2 January - Aase Lionæs, politician (b.1907)

19 January - Odd Vigestad, politician (b.1915)

21 January - Magne Lystad, orienteering champion (b.1932)

1 February - Martin Skaaren, politician (b.1905)

9 February - Bernhard Paus, orthopedic surgeon and Grand Master of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons (b.1910)

10 February - Birger Leirud, high jumper (b.1924)

13 February - Kåre Hovda, biathlete (b.1944)

26 February - Bjørn Wiik, physicist (b.1937)

26 March - Olle Johan Eriksen, politician (b.1923)

26 March - Nils O. Golten, politician (b.1935)

26 March - Eva Kolstad, politician and Minister (b.1918)

14 April - Tor Bjerkmann, publisher (b. 1939).

7 May - Randi Anda, politician (b.1898)

31 May - Carl Viggo Manthey Lange, politician (b.1904)

16 June - Thor Lund, politician (b.1921)

19 June - Karl J. Brommeland, politician (b.1913)

22 June - Petter Furberg, politician (b.1923)

26 July - Trygve Haavelmo, economist, awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (b.1911)

25 August - Jan Iversen, politician (b.1916)

7 September - Bjarne Iversen, cross country skier and Olympic silver medallist (b.1912)

5 October - Lars Breie, jurist, auditor and politician (b.1907)

25 November - Oddvar Berrefjord, jurist, politician and Minister (b.1918)

8 December - Bjarne Flem, politician (b.1914)

8 December - Kjell Moe, international footballer (b.1909)

11 December - Oddleif Fagerheim, politician (b.1911)

21 December - Elsa Rastad Bråten, politician (b.1918)

22 December - Per Aabel, comic actor (b.1902)

23 December - Valter Gabrielsen, politician (b.1921)

26 December - Ola Skjåk Bræk, banker, politician and Minister (b.1912)

31 December – Ferdinand Finne, artist (b.1910).

31 December - Johannes Seland, politician (b.1912)

Full date unknown

Erling Anger, civil servant (b.1909)

Ola Bauer, novelist and playwright (b.1943)

Helmer Dahl, engineer (b.1908)

Kjølv Egeland, politician (b.1918)

Dagmar Lahlum, resistance member and agent (b.1922)

Fredrik Mellbye, physician and chief medical officer (b.1917)

Karl Olsen, civil servant (b.1910)

Hans Skjervheim, philosopher (b.1926)

References

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