1999 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch – Harald V
• Prime Minister – Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Events

• 1 February – The Coastal Party is founded.
• 23 April – Arve Beheim Karlsen drowns in Sogndalselva
• 30 September – Metropol TV starts broadcasting.
• 26 November – The boat MS Sleipner collided with a rock in the notorious part of the North Sea called "Sletta", just north of the town of Haugesund. The ship sank and 16 of the people on board died.
• Saga Petroleum, Norway's third largest petroleum company, is acquired by Norsk Hydro.
• Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.

  Popular culture

Sports

Music

• Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999

  Film

Literature

Television

Notable deaths

• 2 January – Aase Lionæs, politician
• 19 January – Odd Vigestad, politician
• 21 January – Magne Lystad, orienteering champion
• 1 February – Martin Skaaren, politician
• 9 February – Bernhard Paus, orthopedic surgeon and Grand Master of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons
• 10 February – Birger Leirud, high jumper
• 13 February – Kåre Hovda, biathlete
• 26 February – Bjørn Wiik, physicist
• 7 March – Else Granheim, librarian and civil servant.
• 26 March – Olle Johan Eriksen, politician
• 26 March – Nils O. Golten, politician
• 26 March – Eva Kolstad, politician and Minister
• 28 March – Jens Book-Jenssen, popular singer, songwriter, revue artist, and theatre director
• 14 April – Tor Bjerkmann, publisher.
• 27 April – Gunnar Brunvoll, impresario and opera administrator
• 7 May – Randi Anda, politician
• 31 May – Carl Viggo Manthey Lange, politician
• 16 June – Thor Lund, politician
• 19 June – Karl J. Brommeland, politician
• 22 June – Petter Furberg, politician
• 26 July – Trygve Haavelmo, economist, awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• 25 August – Jan Iversen, politician
• 7 September – Bjarne Iversen, cross country skier and Olympic silver medallist
• 5 October – Lars Breie, jurist, auditor and politician
• 25 November – Oddvar Berrefjord, jurist, politician and Minister
• 8 December – Bjarne Flem, politician
• 8 December – Kjell Moe, international footballer
• 11 December – Oddleif Fagerheim, politician
• 21 December – Elsa Rastad Bråten, politician
• 22 December – Per Aabel, comic actor
• 23 December – Valter Gabrielsen, politician
• 26 December – Ola Skjåk Bræk, banker, politician and Minister
• 31 December – Ferdinand Finne, artist.
• 31 December – Johannes Seland, politician

  Full date unknown

• Erling Anger, civil servant
• Ola Bauer, novelist and playwright
• Helmer Dahl, engineer
• Kjølv Egeland, politician
• Dagmar Lahlum, resistance member and agent
• Fredrik Mellbye, physician and chief medical officer
• Karl Olsen, civil servant
• Eva Scheer, journalist, literary critic, translator and author.
• Hans Skjervheim, philosopher