1882 in Norway

Events in the year 1882 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar II.
• Prime Minister: Christian August Selmer

Events

• The 1882 Parliamentary election takes place.

Births

January to June

• 6 January – Lise Stauri, educator (died 1949).
• 11 January – Ole Siem, naval officer, businessman, and politician (died 1979).
• 25 January – Conrad Christensen, gymnast and Olympic bronze medallist (d.1951)
• 4 February Birger Meidell, politician (d.1958)
• 5 February – Karl Ouren, Norwegian-American artist (d.1943)
• 19 February – Hans Ystgaard, politician and Minister (d.1953)
• 27 February – Nils Selmer Hauff, bookseller (d.1963)
• 11 March – Gunnar Kaasen, musher, delivered diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska in 1925, as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the city from an epidemic (d.1960)
• 12 March – Jakob Nilsson Vik, politician and Minister (d.1960)
• 2 May – Aagot Nissen, actress (d.1978)
• 5 May – Carl Alfred Pedersen, gymnast and triple jumper (d.1960)
• 20 May – Sigrid Undset, novelist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928 (d.1949)
• 10 June – Nils Økland, Esperantist and teacher
• 13 June – Hans Dons, naval officer and the first Norwegian to fly in Norway (d.1940)
• 25 June – Sigurd Asserson, civil servant (d.1937)
• 28 June – Peder Alsvik, politician (d.1964)
• 29 June – Ole Singstad, civil engineer in America (d.1969)

July to December

• 6 July – Arnstein Arneberg, architect (d.1961)
• 5 August – Trygve Schjøtt, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (d.1960)
• 13 August – Rolf Lefdahl, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (d.1965)
• 20 August – Jens Isak de Lange Kobro, politician and Minister (d.1967)
• 25 August – Carl Fredrik Holmboe, engineer (d.1960)
• 30 August – Erling Kristvik, educator (died 1969).
• 12 September – Ragnvald Blix, illustrator (d.1958)
• 22 September – Emil Stang, jurist and politician (died 1964).
• 26 October – Per Bakken, Nordic skier (d.1958)
• 2 November – Oscar Engelstad, gymnast and Olympic bronze medallist (d.1972)
• 12 November – Nils Dahl, middle-distance runner (d.1966)
• 16 November – Nils Opdahl, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (d.1951)
• 23 November – Hans Johan Jensen, politician
• 30 November – Frithjof Olsen, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (d.1922)
• 16 December – Olav Bjørnstad, rower and Olympic bronze medallist (d.1963)
• 25 December – Fredrik Rosing Bull, inventor/designer of improved punched card machines (d.1925)

Deaths

• 15 January – Aslak Reiersson Midhassel, politician (born 1798)
• 19 January – Rasmus Tønder Nissen, politician (born 1822)
• 22 March – Peter Wessel Wind Kildal, businessman (born 1814)
• 27 March – Jørgen Moe, bishop and author (born 1813)
• 10 April – Anton Wilhelm Brøgger, printer (born 1820)
• 27 June – Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder, missionary (born 1817)
• 28 September – Amunda Kolderup, opera singer (born 1846).

See also

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