Events in the year 2016 in Norway.

Incumbents

Monarch – Harald V. Prime Minister – Erna Solberg (Conservative).

Events 26 April – The CHC Helikopter Service Flight 241, carrying oil workers from the Gullfaks B platform in the North Sea, crashes near Turøy, and all thirteen crew and passengers die.

Cultural events

January 21–24 January – Ice Music Festival in Geilo 27–30 January – Bodø Jazz Open in Bodø Municipality 29 January-7 February – Nordlysfestivalen in Tromsø Municipality

February 7 February – Oslo Operaball in Oslo 12–21 February – 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer

March 2–5 March – By:Larm 2016 in Oslo 5 March – 150th anniversary of the Storting building 4–13 March – Oslo International Church Music Festival 2016 in Oslo 23–26 March – Inferno Metal Festival 2016 in Oslo

May 28 May – 200th anniversary of the Norwegian Bible Society

Date missing Kaja Nordengen releases Your Superstar Brain (), which sells 100,000 copies and also accentuates a trend of rhyming book titles.

Notable deaths

5 January – Hanna-Marie Weydahl, pianist (b. 1922) 9 January – Elnar Seljevold, correspondent (b. 1934) 10 January – Bård Breivik, sculptor (b. 1948) 11 January – Berge Furre, politician (b. 1937) 12 January – Thor Furulund, painter (b. 1943) 18 January – Lars Roar Langslet, politician (b. 1936) 18 January – Leif Dubard, radio personality (b. 1931) 18 January – Karsten Isachsen, priest and speaker (b. 1944) 18 January – Nicolaus Zwetnow, sport shooter and physician (b. 1929) 20 January – Helga Salvesen, physician (b. 1963) 24 January – Fredrik Barth, social anthropologist (b. 1928) 25 January – Leif Solberg, composer (b. 1914) 30 January – Tias Eckhoff, designer (b. 1926) 1 February – Paul Cappelen, architect (b. 1928) 2 February – Dag Gundersen, lexicographer (b. 1928) 3 February – Arnold Weiberg-Aurdal, politician (b. 1925) 5 February – Carl E. Wang, politician (b. 1930) 8 February – Erlend Østgaard, physicist (b. 1938) 10 February – Jakob Aano, politician (b. 1920) 12 February – Martin Jensen, athlete (b. 1942) 12 February – Sossen Krohg, actress (b. 1923) 12 February – Bergljot Hobæk Haff, novelist (b. 1925) 17 February – Arthur J. Aasland, businessperson (b. 1934) 19 February – Harald Devold, jazz saxophonist (b. 1964) 19 February – Jon Anders Helseth, radio and TV presenter (b. 1933) 22 February – Christian Berg-Nielsen, diplomat (b. 1929) 26 February – Ivan Kristoffersen, editor (b. 1931) 28 February – Hallstein Rasmussen, civil servant (b. 1925) 1 March – Magnhild Bråthen, concentration camp survivor (b. 1924) 4 March – Thea Knutzen, politician (b. 1930) 5 March – Even Hansen, footballer (b. 1923)Death announcement, Aftenposten 7 March – Magnus Ulleland, philologist (b. 1929) 11 March – Kari Diesen, Jr., entertainer (b. 1939) 20 March – Sveinung Valle, politician (b. 1959) 24 March – Johannes Elviken, speed skater (b. 1912) 30 March – Anne Aasheim, editor (b. 1962) 4 April – Jarle Bondevik, philologist (b. 1934)Death announcement, Aftenposten 7 April 2016 p. 48 5 April – Kari Børresen, theologian (b. 1932) 4 April – Andris Snortheim, children's musician (b. 1950) 9 April – Finn Hodt, speed skater (b. 1919) 24 April – Jan Henrik Kayser, pianist (b. 1933) 28 April – Fredrik Grønningsæter, bishop (b. 1923) 5 May – Martha Seim Valeur, politician (b. 1923) 16 May – Bjarne Saltnes, politician (b. 1934) 18 May – Astrid Gunnestad, editor and radio presenter (b. 1938) 18 May – Skjalg Jensen, politician (b. 1967) 23 May – Arne Sandnes, politician (b. 1924) 23 May – Vera Henriksen, author (b. 1927) 25 May – Per Øien, musician (b. 1937) 27 May – Kai G. Henriksen, businessman (b. 1956) 30 May – Jan Aas, footballer (b. 1944)FFK-vingen Jan Aas er død, Fredriksstad Blad (2 June 2016) 31 May – Olav Djupvik, politician (b. 1931) 3 June – Arve Solstad, editor (b. 1935) 4 June – Geirmund Ihle, politician (b. 1934)Geirmund Ihle er død 8 June – Terje Fjærn, band leader (b. 1942) 10 June – Alfred Oftedal Telhaug, educationalist (b. 1934) 10 June – Per Bakken, industrialist (b. 1937) 11 June – Lars Skytøen, politician (b. 1929) 12 June – Gunnar Gran, editor (b. 1931) 12 June – Dagfinn Gedde-Dahl, physician (b. 1937) 14 June – Per Hovdenakk, museum director (b. 1935) 15 June – Erik Enger, physician (b. 1927) 17 June – Willy Andresen, musician (b. 1921) 17 June – Reidar Kvaal, resistance member (b. 1916) 18 June – Sverre Kjelsberg, musician (b. 1946) 27 June – Anfin Skaaheim, missionary leader (b. 1939) 27 June – Stein Madsen, footballer (b. 1954) 28 June – Ragnar Pedersen, ethnologist (b. 1941) 29 June – Gunnar Garbo, politician (b. 1924) 29 June – Frode Nilsen, diplomat (b. 1923) 4 July – Kjell Olaf Jensen, literary critic (b. 1946) 14 July – Tor Lian, handball official (b. 1945) 22 July – Geir Myhre, ice hockey player (b. 1954) 23 July – Carl Falck, wholesaler (b. 1907) 24 July – Håkon Fimland, hurdler (b. 1942) 28 July – Marianne Ihlen, person (b. 1935) 31 July – Jon Klette, jazz saxophonist (b. 1962) 31 July – Kjell Underlid, psychologist (b. 1950) 4 August – Eivald Røren, scientist (b. 1932) 5 August – Erling Ree-Pedersen, tax director (b. 1922)Obituaries and death announcement, Moss Avis 11 August 2016, pp. 22–23 6 August – Jan Wilsgaard, Volvo designer (b. 1930) 9 August – Per Müller, singer (b. 1932)Death announcement, Aftenposten 13 August 2016 10 August – Helen Brinchmann, actress (b. 1918) 11 August – Sigbjørn Ravnåsen, politician (b. 1941) 13 August – Holger Ursin, professor of medicine (b. 1934) 15 August – Knut Kjøk, fiddler (b. 1948) 16 August – Knut Aunbu, television producer (b. 1943) 18 August – Fred Nøddelund, musician (b. 1947) 22 August – Per Lønning, bishop and politician (b. 1928) 23 August – Berit Mørdre, skier (b. 1940) 26 August – Harald Grønningen, skier (b. 1934) 30 August – Peter Wollnick, radio presenter (b. 1927) 1 September – Leif Mæhle, philologist (b. 1927) 2 September – Thorstein Sandholt, speed skater (b. 1935)[skoyter-15-46-6.origo.no/-/bulletin/show/868357_juniormesteren-fra-1957-er-doed Juniormesteren fra 1957 er død] 3 September – Jan Otto Hauge, editor (b. 1945) 3 September – Jan Nilsen, footballer (b. 1937) 10 September – Knut Wiggen, composer (b. 1927) 10 September – Sonja Barth, environmentalist (b. 1923) 11 September – Per Brandtzæg, professor of medicine (b. 1936) 12 September – Tor Brustad, biophysicist (b. 1926) 15 September – Haakon Sørbye, resistance member (b. 1920) 21 September – Ragnar Hvidsten, footballer (b. 1926) 22 September – Svein Gunnar Morgenlien, politician (b. 1922) 24 September – Wenche Lowzow, politician (b. 1926) 26 September – Wilhelm Mohr, aviation officer (b. 1917) 26 September – Jens Lothe, physicist (b. 1931)Obituary 28 September – Gunnar Block Watne, industrialist (b. 1929) 30 September – Lilleba Lund Kvandal, opera singer (b. 1940)Obituary 2 October – Georg Apenes, politician (b. 1940) 8 October – Jan "Jonas" Gulbrandsen, footballer (b. 1933)Death announcement 10 October – Hans Petter Langtangen, computer scientist (b. 1962)Obituary 10 October – Christian Erlandsen, physician and politician (b. 1926) 10 October – Benn Mikalsen, politician (b. 1956) 15 October – Per Rune Wølner, footballer (b. 1949)Minneord: Per Rune Wølner, Drammens Tidende (21 October 2016). Retrieved 26 October 2016. 21 October – Kjell Aas, physician (b. 1924)Obituary 24 October – Johan Stølan, politician (b. 1939) 25 October – Bjørn Lidin Hansen, footballer (b. 1989) 30 October – Leif Einar Plahter, art historian (b. 1929)Obituary 1 November – Sverre Andersen, footballer (b. 1936) 3 November – Turid Karlsen Seim, theologian (b. 1945) 7 November – Birger Jansen, ice hockey player (b. 1948) 11 November – Lauritz Bernhard Sirevaag, politician (b. 1926) 13 November – Aslaug Fadum, politician (b. 1925) 22 November – Per Sundby, physician (b. 1926) 25 November – Marit Kalstad, children's writer (b. 1931) 26 November – Alv Gjestvang, speed skater (b. 1937) 26 November – Ida Blom, historian (b. 1931) 27 November – Eystein Paasche, botanist (b. 1932)

2 December – Tove Kari Viken, politician (b. 1942) 6 December – Jan Frøystein Halvorsen, Supreme Court Justice (b. 1928) 11 December – Oddvar S. Kvam, composer (b. 1927) 14 December – Arnie Norse, entertainer (b. 1925) 18 December – Rolf Trygve Busch, diplomat (b. 1920) 18 December – Vibeke Knudsen, diplomat (b. 1948) 19 December – Anne Borg, dancer (b. 1936) 26 December – Joachim Calmeyer, actor (b. 1931)

See also 2016 in Norwegian music 2016 in Norwegian television

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