Portal:Norway/Selected anniversaries/January
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- Trygve Martin Bratteli (January 11, 1910 - November 20, 1984) was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party and Prime Minister of Norway from 1971 to 1972 and from 1973 to 1976.
- Dorothe Engelbretsdotter (born January 16, 1634 in Bergen, Norway, died February 19, 1713 in Bergen), was Norway's first recognized woman author.
- Carl Abraham Pihl (pictured) (born January 16, 1825 in Stavanger, Norway, died September 14, 1897) was Norway's first railroad engineer and director.
- Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Swedish and Norwegian descent.
