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List of events
Events in the year 1859 in Norway .
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Notable births
Knut Hamsun
Minda Ramm
28 January –
Ambrosia Tønnesen , sculptor (died
1948 ).
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5 April –
Harald Smedal , politician and Minister (died 1911)
15 May –
Olav Bjørkum , politician (died 1936)
23 June –
Daniel Isaachsen , physicist (died 1940)
29 June –
Ragnvald Bødtker , engineer (died 1946)
30 July –
Christian Sparre , politician (died 1940)
4 August –
Knut Hamsun , author,
Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (died 1952)
29 August –
Thomas Vigner Christiansen Haaland , politician (died 1913)
7 October –
Thorleif Frederik Schjelderup , businessperson (died 1931)
11 November –
Belle Gunness , serial killer
15 November –
Bjørn Bjørnson , actor and theatre director (died 1942)
15 November –
Christopher Hornsrud , politician and
Prime Minister of
Norway (died 1960)
17 November –
Fredrik Stang Lund , politician and Minister (died 1922)
23 December –
Sigurd Ibsen , author and politician (died 1930)
27 December –
Bernt Holtsmark , politician (died 1941)
27 December –
Minda Ramm , novelist, translator and literary critic (died
1924 ).
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Notable deaths
Ole Rasmussen Apeness
14 February –
Ole Rasmussen Apeness , district sheriff, soldier, and farmer (b.
1765 )
26 May –
Engebret Soot , canal engineer (born 1786)
7 June –
Lauritz Dorenfeldt Jenssen , businessperson (born 1801)
27 August –
Catharine Hermine Kølle , adventurer and painter (born 1788)
29 October –
Nils Landmark , jurist, farmer and politician (born 1775)
19 December –
Niels Arntzen Sem , politician (born 1782)
23 December –
Even Hammer Holmboe , politician (born 1792)
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