1844 in Norway
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Events
- 8 March - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway
Births
- 2 March - Ole Larsen Skattebøl, judge and politician (d.1929)
- 8 March - Jens Jonas Jansen, priest (d.1912)
- 22 March - Sven Oftedal, helped found the Lutheran Free Church (d.1911)
- 23 May - Klaus Hanssen, physician and politician
- 15 July - Thorbjorn N. Mohn, American Lutheran church leader and the first president of St. Olaf College (d. 1899)
- 8 August - Alf Collett, writer (d.1919)
- 11 September - N. O. Nelson, founder of the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company (d. 1922)
- 2 October - Peter Harboe Castberg, banker (d.1926)
- 29 December - Brynild Anundsen, founder of Decorah Posten (d.1913)
Full date unknown
- Oluf Hansen Hagen, politician
- Nils Otto Hesselberg, politician (d.1929)
- Christian Wilhelm Engel Bredal Olssøn, politician and Minister (d.1915)
- Steinar Schjøtt, philologist and lexicographer (d.1920)
- Oscar Wergeland, painter (d.1910)
Deaths
- 4 August - Jacob Aall, historian and statesman (b.1773)
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