Events

• Between February 14 and February 25 the 1952 Winter Olympics take place in Oslo.
• Around April 4 five Norwegian seal hunting vessels went down in a storm in the West Ice. The West Ice accidents claimed 78 lives in total.

Arts and literature

Births

• April 25 - Ketil Bjørnstad, pianist
• August 8 - Jostein Gaarder, author

Deaths

• February 19 - Knut Hamsun, author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)