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See also:	1879 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1879 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar II .^[1]

Events

• The Kverneland Group was established by Ole Gabriel Kverneland.

Arts and literature

• Henrik Ibsen (while living in Italy) publishes A Doll's House

Births

January to June

• 26 January – Birger Braadland, politician (died 1966)
• 5 March – Rachel Grepp, journalist and politician (died 1961)
• 24 March – Leiv Heggstad, educator, linguist and translator (died 1954).^[2]
• 11 April – Øistein Schirmer, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1947)
• 29 April – Henrik Ameln, jurist and politician (died 1961)
• 23 May – Kjeld Stub Irgens, sea captain and collaborator minister (died 1963)
• 27 May – Per Reidarson, composer and music critic (died 1954)
• 28 May – Lilly Heber, literary critic and historian (died 1944).^[3]
• 30 May – Olaf Josef Johansen, politician.^[4]
• 27 June – Martin Tranmæl, socialist leader (died 1967)

July to September

• 9 July – Karen Platou, politician (died 1950)
• 5 August – Ole Hallesby, Lutheran neo-orthodox pietist (died 1961)
• 6 August – Kyrre Grepp, politician (died 1922)
• 6 September
  • Knud Leonard Knudsen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1954)
  • Johan Nygaardsvold, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (died 1952)
• 14 September – Andreas Brecke, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1952)
• 29 September – Nils Bertelsen, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1958)
• 30 September – Johan Falkberget, author (died 1967)

October to December

• 1 October – Lauritz Sand, resistance fighter (died 1956)
• 5 October – Halfdan Cleve, composer (died 1951)
• 21 October – Torkell Vinje, politician (died 1955)
• 20 November – Martin Stenersen, sport shooter (died 1968)
• 27 November – Gil Andersen, American auto racer (died 1930)
• 29 November – Nils Trædal, cleric, politician and Minister (died 1948)
• 6 December – Rudolf Gundersen, speed skater (died 1946)

Full date unknown

• Anders Fjelstad, politician (died 1955)

Deaths

• 5 February – Halvor Schou, industrialist (born 1823)
• 8 April – Christian Cornelius Paus, lawyer, civil servant and politician (born 1800)
• 2 September – Johan Collett Falsen, jurist and politician (born 1817)

Full date unknown

• Jan Henrik Nitter Hansen, businessman and politician (born 1801)
• Henrik Krohn, poet, magazine editor and proponent for Nynorsk language (born 1826)