1887 in Norway

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See also:	1887 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1887 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar II
• Prime Minister: Johan Sverdrup

Events

• 21 August - The Norwegian Labour Party was established.

Albertine i politilægens venteværelse.

Arts and literature

• Albertine i politilægens venteværelse, painting by Christian Krohg

Births

January to March

• 7 January - Ingvald Tøndel, politician (died 1952)
• 15 January - Charles Mackenzie Bruff, forensic chemist (died 1955).
• 17 January - Ola Raknes, psychoanalyst and philologist (died 1975)
• 15 February - Sigurd Jørgensen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1929)
• 11 March - Henry Olsen, track and field athlete (died 1978)
• 15 March - Johanne Samueline Pedersen, politician (died 1961)
• 20 March - Hans Eidnes, politician (died 1962)
• 26 March - Yngvar Fredriksen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1958)

April to June

• 2 April - Øyvind Alfred Stensrud, politician (died 1956)
• 4 April - Peder Morset, teacher and resistance member (died 1943).
• 10 April - Alf Lie, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1969)
• 28 April - Thomas Aas, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1961)
• 3 May - Harald Halvorsen, gymnast and Olympic silver medalist (died 1965)
• 14 May - Petter Martinsen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1972)
• 18 May - Eugen Lunde, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1963)
• 23 May - Thoralf Skolem, mathematician (died 1963)
• 12 June - Laurits Grønland, politician (died 1957)
• 22 June - Oscar Olstad, gymnast and Olympic bronze medallist
• 25 June - Axel Henry Hansen, gymnast and Olympic bronze medallist (died 1980)

July to September

• 3 July - Carl Klæth, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (died 1966)
• 18 July - Vidkun Quisling, army officer, politician and Minister-President of Norway, executed (died 1945)
• 27 July - Kristoffer Skåne Grytnes, politician (died 1965)
• 11 August - Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (died 1954)
• 12 August - Erling Falk, businessman and politician (died 1940)
• 19 August - Otto Monsen, track and field athlete (died 1979)
• 20 August - Engebret Skogen, rifle shooter and Olympic bronze medallist (died 1968)
• 25 August - Fartein Valen, composer and musical theorist (died 1952)
• 11 September - Oscar Larsen, middle distance runner (died 1975)
• 16 September – Knut Fixdal, road engineer and civil servant (died 1969).
• 18 September - Harald Gram, jurist, politician and genealogist (died 1961)
• 22 September - Thoralf Hagen, rower and Olympic bronze medallist (died 1979)

October to December

• 1 October - Anders Moen, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (died 1966)
• 4 October - Francis Bull, literary historian, professor, essayist and magazine editor (died 1974)
• 20 October - Arne Halse, athlete and Olympic silver medallist (died 1975)
• 26 October - Arnfinn Heje, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1958)
• 28 October - Friedrich Georg Nissen, civil servant (died 1969)
• 23 November - Andreas Knudsen, sailor and Olympic silver medallist (died 1982)
• 7 December - Knut Olaf Andreasson Strand, politician (died 1980)
• 10 December – Olga Bjoner, politician and organizational leader (died 1969).

Full date unknown

• Lauritz Bergendahl, Nordic skier (died 1964)
• Kristian Fjeld, politician and Minister (died 1976)
• Olav Berntsen Oksvik, politician and Minister (died 1958)
• Lars Slagsvold, veterinarian (died 1959)
• Knut Knutsson Steintjønndalen, Hardanger fiddle maker (died 1969)
• Sverre Kornelius Eilertsen Støstad, politician and Minister (died 1959)

Deaths

• 11 March - Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer and organist (died 1812)
• 16 July - Jørgen Tandberg Ebbesen, politician (born 1812)

Full date unknown

• Harald Kolbeinson Guddal, politician (born 1798)
• Leonhard Christian Borchgrevink Holmboe, priest and politician (born 1802)