Events in the year 1929 in Norway.

• Monarch – Haakon VII.^[1]

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• 21 March - Crown Prince Olav (later King Olav) married his cousin, Princess Märtha of Sweden.^[2]

• 8 May
  • Norway annexed the volcanic island Jan Mayen located in the Arctic Ocean.
  • Seamen organize a general strike in opposition to proposed wage cuts.^[3]

• 1 January – Fredrik Olsen, shipping magnate
• 3 January – Grethe Rytter Hasle, planktologist (died 2013)
• 17 January – Jan Rasmus Skåre, judge (died 2018)
• 3 February – Arvid Johanson, politician and minister (died 2013)
• 10 February – Hallgeir Brenden, cross country skier and double Olympic gold medallist (died 2007)
• 10 February – Einar W. Sissener, businessperson (died 2008)
• 26 February – Bjørn Skau, politician and minister (died 2013)
• 4 March – Fredrik Hagemann, geologist and public servant (died 2019).^[4][5]
• 5 April – Ivar Giaever, physicist, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973
• 19 April – Guttorm Berge, alpine skier and Olympic bronze medallist (died 2004)
• 20 April – Knut S. Heier, geochemist (died 2008)
• 6 May – Jorun Askersrud, cross country skier and athlete (died 2012)
• 7 May – Arnsten Samuelstuen, ski jumper (died 2012)
• 10 May – Audun Boysen, middle-distance runner and Olympic bronze medallist (died 2000)
• 10 May – John Gjerde, politician (died 2005)
• 28 or 29 May – Dag Frogner, painter and scenographer (died 2015).^[6][7]
• 31 May – Halvdan Ljøsne, painter (died 2006)
• 11 June – Per Almar Aas, politician (died 2014)
• 24 June – Oddvar Barlie, sports wrestler (died 2017).^[8][9]
• 1 July – Sigurd Berge, composer (died 2002)
• 8 July – Gunnar Block Watne, engineer and businessperson, introduced prefabricated houses in Norway (died 2016).^[10]
• 13 July – Svein Ellingsen, visual artist and hymnist (died 2020)^[11]
• 18 July – Kai Ekanger, politician (died 2018)
• 26 August – Willy Arne Wold, politician (died 1996)
• 24 September – Kåre Rønning, politician (died 1990)
• 30 September – Kjell Askildsen, writer (died 2021)
• 30 September – Helga Gitmark, politician (died 2008)^[12]
• 18 October – Inger Sitter, painter and printmaker (died 2015).^[13]
• 19 October – Thorbjørn Kultorp, politician (died 2004)
• 22 October – Tore Sinding-Larsen, judge (died 2013)
• 30 November – Leif Haraldseth, trade unionist, politician and minister (died 2019)
• 13 December – Lars Skytøen, politician and minister (died 2016)
• 14 December – Magne Lerheim, politician (died 1994)
• 24 December – Sverre Wilberg, actor (died 1996)

• 6 January – August Herman Halvorsen, politician (born 1866)
• 22 February – Gunnar Heiberg, playwright (born 1857).^[15]
• 23 March – Rudolf Nilsen, poet and journalist (born 1901)
• 2 May – Anders Svor, sculptor (born 1864)
• 24 May – Just Bing Ebbesen, priest and politician (born 1847)
• 8 June – Ole Larsen Skattebøl, judge and politician (born 1844)
• 9 July – Hans Andersen Foss, author, newspaper editor and temperance leader in America (born 1851)
• 1 August – Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram, jurist and politician (born 1846).^[16]
• 12 September – Olaf Hovdenak, long-distance runner (born 1891)
• 3 November – Olav Aukrust, poet and teacher (born 1883)
• 19 November – Torleiv Hannaas, philologist (born 1874)
• 14 December – Sigurd Jørgensen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (born 1887)