Anders Behring Breivik is the admitted perpetrator of the July 2011 attacks in Norway that killed 77 people.
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Erik the Red was the founder of the first European settlement on Greenland ( 986) and the father of Leif Eriksson, one of the first Europeans to reach North America.
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Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson, the second son of Erik the Red, was possibly the first European to reach North America.
1001-1100
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Morten Harket is best known for being lead singer of the Norwegian pop band A-ha, which produced the 1980s hit "Take On Me" and its innovative music video.
1959-
Sonja Henie was a Norwegian figure skater who won three Olympic gold medals. After retiring from skating, she acted in Hollywood films like The Thin Ice.
1912-1969
Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl made a celebrated journey aboard a raft called Kon-Tiki in 1947, and later wrote an international best-seller about his amazing expedition.
1914-2002
Exiled Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler, the latter of which featured one of theater's most notorious characters.
1828-1906
Norwegian singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad and her band, ABBA, became an overnight sensation in 1974 with their first hit single, "Waterloo."
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Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter who has become widely known for his iconic pre-Expressionist painting The Scream.
1863-1944
1888-1931
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