Events in the year 1906 in Norway.
Popular culture
Sports
- 28 August – Moss FK football club is founded.
Literature
- The Knut Hamsund novel Under Høststjærnen. En Vandrers Fortælling (Under the Autumn Star), was published.
Notable births
- 9 January – Leif Larsen, naval officer (died 1990)
- 30 January – Greta Nissan, actress (died 1988)
- 31 January – Jørgen Adolf Lier, politician (died 1994)
- 17 February – Henrik Selberg, mathematician (died 1993).[1]
- 1 April – Sigve Lie, sailor and twice Olympic gold medallist (died 1958)
- 6 April – Bernt Østerkløft, Nordic combined skier (died 1996)
- 20 April – Johan Jentoft Johansen, politician (died 1973)
- 29 April – Arthur Arntzen, politician (died 1997)
- 15 May – Alf Andersen, ski jumper and Olympic gold medallist (died 1975)
- 29 May – Andreas Holm, politician (died 2003)
- 5 June – Andreas Holmsen, professor and historian (died 1989)
- 11 June – Sigurd Marius Johansen, politician (died 1989)
- 18 June – Nils Handal, politician and Minister (died 1992)
- 23 June – Holger Albrechtsen, hurdler (died 1992)
- 13 July – Erling Petersen, economist and politician (died 1992)
- 19 July – Klaus Egge, composer and music critic (died 1979)
- 11 August – Haakon Lind, boxer (died 1955)
- 15 August – Asle Enger, priest (died 2000).[2]
- 15 August – Gunvor Katharina Eker, politician (died 1980)
- 16 August – Harald Damsleth, cartoonist, illustrator and ad-man (died 1971)
- 24 August – Otto Berg, long jumper (died 1991)
- 9 October – Rolf Hansen, long distance runner (died 1980)
- 9 October – Haakon Pedersen, speed skater (died 1991)
- 11 October – Olaf Hansen, boxer (died 1986)
- 17 October – Brynjulf Bull, lawyer, Supreme Court advocate and politician (died 1993)
- 13 November – Torborg Nedreaas, author (died 1987)
- 22 November – Jørgen Juve, international soccer player and Olympic bronze medallist (died 1983)
- 1 December – Jakob Sande, writer, poet and folk singer (died 1967)
- 8 December – Borghild Bondevik Haga, politician (died 1990)