1879 in Norway

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See also:	1879 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1879 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar II

Arts and literature

• Henrik Ibsen (while living in Italy) publishes A Doll’s House

Births

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Martin Tranmæl

January to June

• 26 January - Birger Braadland, politician (died 1966)
• 5 March - Rachel Grepp, journalist and politician (died 1961)
• 24 March – Leiv Heggstad, educator, linguist and translator (died 1954).
• 11 April - Øistein Schirmer, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1947)
• 29 April - Henrik Ameln, jurist and politician (died 1961)
• 23 May - Kjeld Stub Irgens, sea captain and collaborator minister (died 1963)
• 27 May - Per Reidarson, composer and music critic (died 1954)
• 27 June - Martin Tranmæl, socialist leader (died 1967)

July to September

• 5 August - Ole Hallesby, Lutheran neo-orthodox pietist (died 1961)
• 6 August - Kyrre Grepp, politician (died 1922)
• 6 September - Knud Leonard Knudsen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1954)
• 6 September - Johan Nygaardsvold, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (died 1952)
• 14 September - Andreas Brecke, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1952)
• 29 September - Nils Bertelsen, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1958)
• 30 September - Johan Falkberget, author (died 1967)

October to December

• 1 October - Lauritz Sand, resistance fighter (died 1956)
• 5 October - Halfdan Cleve, composer (died 1951)
• 21 October - Torkell Vinje, politician (died 1955)
• 20 November - Martin Stenersen, sport shooter (died 1968)
• 27 November - Gil Andersen, motor racing driver in America (died 1935)
• 29 November - Nils Trædal, cleric, politician and Minister (died 1948)
• 6 December - Rudolf Gundersen, speed skater (died 1946)

Full date unknown

• Anders Fjelstad, politician (died 1955)

Deaths

• 5 February - Halvor Schou, industrialist (born 1823)
• 8 April - Christian Cornelius Paus, lawyer, civil servant and politician (born 1800)
• 2 September - Johan Collett Falsen, jurist and politician (born 1817)

Full date unknown

• Jan Henrik Nitter Hansen, businessman and politician (born 1801)
• Henrik Krohn, poet, magazine editor and proponent for Nynorsk language (born 1826)