1903 in Norway

Events in the year 1903 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Prime Minister of Norway: Otto Blehr, succeeded by:
• Prime Minister of Norway: Francis Hagerup

Events

• 7 April - Fredrikstad Football Club (FFK) is founded
• 16 June – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
• 10 August – The Oseberg ship, a well-preserved Viking ship from the 9th century, was discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in the Vestfold county.
• 22 October - Francis Hagerup succeeded Otto Blehr as Prime Minister of Norway
• The 1903 Parliamentary election takes place.
• Edvard Grieg, in Paris, became the first Norwegian to make gramophone records

Notable Births

• 19 January - Dyre Vaa, sculptor and painter (d.1980)
• 29 January - Olav Rytter, newspaper editor, radio personality, foreign correspondent, philologist and translator (d.1992)
• 3 February - Johan Strand Johansen, politician and Minister (d.1970)
• 25 February - Olav Kjetilson Nylund, politician (d.1957)
• 17 March - Olav Meisdalshagen, politician and Minister (d.1959)
• 27 March - Leif Tronstad, scientist, intelligence officer and military organizer (d.1945)
• 28 March - Hans Kristian Bromstad, politician (d.1971)
• 24 April - Anders Platou Wyller, philologist and humanist (d.1940)
• 27 April - Tor Skjønsberg, resistance leader, politician and Minister (d.1993)
• 28 April - Egil Rasmussen, author, literature critic and musician (d.1964)
• 2 May - Øivin Fjeldstad, conductor and violinist (d.1983)
• 19 May - Karl Eugen Hammerstedt, politician (d.1960)
• 24 May - Gudbrand Bernhardsen Tandberg, politician (d.1949)
• 26 May - Sverre Helgesen, high jumper (d.1981)
• 1 June - Hans Vogt, linguist (d.1986)
• 14 June - Nils Helgheim, politician (d.1982)
• 17 June - Halvor Bunkholt, politician (d.1978)
• 25 June - Kai Knudsen, politician (d.1977)
• 26 June - Iver Johan Unsgård, politician (d.1993)
• 2 July - Olav V of Norway, King of Norway (d.1991)
• 4 July - Hans Jacob Ustvedt, medical doctor and broadcasting administrator (d.1982)
• 12 July - Haldis Tjernsberg, politician (d.1972)
• 31 July - Sigmund Skard, poet, essayist and professor of literature (d.1995)
• 17 August - Kittill Kristoffersen Berg, politician (d.1983)
• 17 August - Olav Sunde, javelin thrower and Olympic bronze medallist (d.1985)
• 29 August - Ole Stenen, Nordic skier, Olympic silver medallist and World Champion (d.1975)
• 15 September - Trygve Braarud, botanist (d.1985)
• 15 October - Erik Anker, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (d.1994)
• 20 November - Leif Skagnæs, Nordic combined skier
• 24 November - Sverre Bernhard Nybø, politician (d.1976)
• 27 November - Karen Grønn-Hagen, politician and Minister (d.1982)
• 27 November - Lars Onsager, physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d.1976)
• 6 December - Kristian Hovde, cross country skier
• 15 December - Georg Braathe, long distance runner (d.1968)

Full date unknown

• Kirsten Hansteen, politician and Minister, first female member of cabinet in Norway (d.1974)

Notable deaths

• 20 March - Carl Anton Bjerknes, mathematician and physicist (b.1825)
• 17 August - Hans Gude, painter (b.1825)
• 28 August - Hans Hein Theodor Nysom, politician (b.1845)
• 12 October - Olaus Alvestad, educator and newspaper editor (b.1866)
• 27 October - Erika Nissen, pianist (b.1845)

Full date unknown

• Jacob Thurmann Ihlen, politician (b.1833)
• Christian Fredrik Sissenèr, property owner and politician (b.1849)