Egil Henrik Bjerklund (5 September 1933 – 29 September 2022) was a Norwegian

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

player. He played for the Norway national team and participated at the

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1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...

and in

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

. He was awarded

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as the best Norwegian ice hockey player in 1961. Bjerklund died on 29 September 2022.

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* * * 1933 births 2022 deaths Ice hockey people from Oslo Ice hockey players at the 1952 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1964 Winter Olympics Norway men's national ice hockey team coaches Norwegian ice hockey defencemen Norwegian ice hockey left wingers Olympic ice hockey players for Norway {{norway-icehockey-bio-stub