Incumbents

Monarch – Haakon VII
Regent – Olav after July, following injury to King due to fall
Prime Minister – Oscar Torp (Labour Party) until 22 January, Einar Gerhardsen (Labour Party)

Events

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14 January – Prime Minister Oscar Torp resigned.
22 January – Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet was appointed.
3 December – Osvald Harjo returned to Norway after 13 years in Soviet prison camps.
Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.

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Kristian Kristiansen, novelist, playwright, short story and children's writer, is awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment literary prize

16 January – Asbjørn Halvorsen, international soccer player and general secretary of the Norwegian Football Association (born 1898)
25 January – Hans Peter Elisa Lødrup, journalist, newspaper editor, non-fiction writer and politician (born 1885).^[5]
16 February – Einar Osland, politician (born 1886)
2 May – Torkell Vinje, politician (born 1879)
6 May – Barbra Ring, writer (born 1870).^[6]
1 June – F. Melius Christiansen, violinist and choral conductor (born 1871)
2 June – Haaken Hasberg Gran, botanist (born 1870)
28 June – Haakon Lind, boxer (born 1906)
6 July – Alfred Næss, speed skater (born 1877)
10 July – Einar Frogner, politician and Minister (born 1893)
11 July – Christian S. Oftedal, politician (born 1907)
22 July – Haakon Shetelig, archaeologist (born 1877)
30 July – Ferdinand Schjelderup, mountaineer, Supreme Court Justice and resistance member (born 1886)
4 September – Christen Gran Bøgh, jurist, tourism promoter and theatre critic (born 1876)
9 September – Einar Liberg, rifle shooter and Olympic gold medallist (born 1873).^[7]
17 October – Charles Mackenzie Bruff, forensic chemist (born 1887).^[8]