1903 in Norway

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See also:	1903 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1903 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar II
• Prime Minister: Otto Blehr, then Francis Hagerup

Events

The Oseberg ship was discovered.

• 7 April - Fredrikstad Football Club (FFK) is founded
• 16 June – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
• 10 August – The Oseberg ship, a well-preserved Viking ship from the 9th century, was discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in the Vestfold county.
• 22 October - Francis Hagerup succeeded Otto Blehr as Prime Minister of Norway
• The 1903 Parliamentary election takes place.
• Edvard Grieg, in Paris, became the first Norwegian to make gramophone records

Births

• 19 January - Dyre Vaa, sculptor and painter (died 1980)
• 29 January - Olav Rytter, newspaper editor, radio personality, foreign correspondent, philologist and translator (died 1992)
• 3 February - Johan Strand Johansen, politician and Minister (died 1970)
• 25 February - Olav Kjetilson Nylund, politician (died 1957)
• 17 March - Olav Meisdalshagen, politician and Minister (died 1959)
• 27 March - Leif Tronstad, scientist, intelligence officer and military organizer (died 1945)
• 28 March - Hans Kristian Bromstad, politician (died 1971)
• 24 April - Anders Platou Wyller, philologist and humanist (died 1940)
• 27 April - Tor Skjønsberg, resistance leader, politician and Minister (died 1993)
• 28 April - Egil Rasmussen, author, literature critic and musician (died 1964)
• 2 May - Øivin Fjeldstad, conductor and violinist (died 1983)
• 19 May - Karl Eugen Hammerstedt, politician (died 1960)
• 24 May - Gudbrand Bernhardsen Tandberg, politician (died 1949)
• 26 May - Sverre Helgesen, high jumper (died 1981)
• 1 June - Hans Vogt, linguist (died 1986)
• 3 June – Tobias Gedde-Dahl, physician (died 1994).^[1]
• 10 June – Ferdinand Strøm, dentist and a pioneer in developing forensic dentistry in Norway (died 1990).^[2]
• 14 June - Nils Helgheim, politician (died 1982)
• 17 June - Halvor Bunkholt, politician (died 1978)
• 25 June - Kai Knudsen, politician (died 1977)
• 26 June - Iver Johan Unsgård, politician (died 1993)
• 2 July - Olav V, King of Norway (died 1991)
• 4 July - Hans Jacob Ustvedt, medical doctor and broadcasting administrator (died 1982)
• 12 July - Haldis Tjernsberg, politician (died 1972)
• 31 July - Sigmund Skard, poet, essayist and professor of literature (died 1995)
• 17 August - Kittill Kristoffersen Berg, politician (died 1983)
• 17 August - Olav Sunde, javelin thrower and Olympic bronze medallist (died 1985)
• 29 August - Ole Stenen, Nordic skier, Olympic silver medallist and World Champion (died 1975)
• 15 September - Trygve Braarud, botanist (died 1985)
• 24 September – Andreas Martinius Andersen, civil servant.^[3]
• 15 October - Erik Anker, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1994)
• 7 November - Ståle Kyllingstad, sculptor (died 1987).^[4]
• 20 November - Leif Skagnæs, Nordic combined skier
• 24 November - Sverre Bernhard Nybø, politician (died 1976)
• 27 November - Karen Grønn-Hagen, politician and Minister (died 1982)
• 27 November - Lars Onsager, physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1976)
• 6 December - Kristian Hovde, cross country skier
• 15 December - Georg Braathe, long distance runner (died 1968)

Full date unknown

• Kirsten Hansteen, politician and Minister, first female member of cabinet in Norway (died 1974)

Notable deaths

Hans Gude

• 20 March - Carl Anton Bjerknes, mathematician and physicist (born 1825)
• 17 August - Hans Gude, painter (born 1825)
• 28 August - Hans Hein Theodor Nysom, politician (born 1845)
• 12 October - Olaus Alvestad, educator and newspaper editor (born 1866)
• 27 October - Erika Nissen, pianist (born 1845)

Full date unknown

• Jacob Thurmann Ihlen, politician (born 1833)
• Christian Fredrik Sissenèr, property owner and politician (born 1849)

References

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