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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Births 3.1 January to June 3.2 July to December 3.3 Full date unknown 4 Deaths 4.1 Full date unknown

[edit] Events

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 18 February - Johan Hjort, fisheries scientist, marine zoologist and oceanographer (d.1948)
• 23 March - Waldemar Ager, newspaperman and author in America (d.1941)
• 1 April - Peter Egge, writer (d.1959)
• 11 April - Gustav Vigeland, sculptor (d.1943)

[edit] July to December

• 5 July - Holger Sinding-Larsen, architect (d.1938)
• 31 July - Johannes Irgens, diplomat, politician and Minister (d.1939)
• 17 September - Christian Lous Lange, historian, teacher and political scientist, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921 (d.1938)
• 29 September - Harald Sohlberg, painter (d.1935)

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• Hjalmar Christensen, writer (d.1925)
• Kristen Holbø, painter and illustrator (d.1953)
• Johan Aschehoug Kiær, paleontologist and geologist (d.1931)
• Rasmus Olai Mortensen, politician and Minister (d.1934)
• Andreas Tostrup Urbye, politician and Minister (d.1955)

[edit] Deaths

• 6 March - Niels Nielsen Vogt, priest and politician (b.1798)

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• Gustav Peter Blom, politician (b.1785)
• Melchior Schjelderup Olsson Fuhr, politician (b.1790)
• Jon Eriksson Helland II, Hardanger fiddle maker (b.1849)
• Bernt Sverdrup Maschmann, priest and politician (b.1805)