This is a list of Finnish supercentenarians (people from Finland who have attained the age of at least 110 years). The oldest person ever from Finland was Maria Rothovius, who died in 2000, aged 112 years 259 days. [1] All Finnish supercentenarians were born at a time when Finland was an autonomous state of the Russian Empire.
Deceased Living
Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age | Birthplace | Place of death or residence |
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1 | Maria Rothovius [1] | F | 2 October 1887 | 17 June 2000 | 112 years, 259 days | Uusimaa | Pirkanmaa |
2 | Hilda Häkkinen [1] | F | 18 March 1894 | 31 December 2005 | 111 years, 288 days | South Ostrobothnia | South Ostrobothnia |
3 | Gunborg Hancock [2] | F | 20 April 1912 | Living | 111 years, 268 days | Uusimaa | Sweden |
4 | Selma Tuominen [3] | F | 19 July 1903 | 12 April 2015 | 111 years, 267 days | Southwest Finland | Southwest Finland |
5 | Aarne Arvonen [1] | M | 4 August 1897 | 1 January 2009 | 111 years, 150 days | Uusimaa | Uusimaa |
6 | Fanny Nyström [1] | F | 30 September 1878 | 31 August 1989 | 110 years, 335 days | Southwest Finland | Southwest Finland |
7 | Sirkka Nieminen [4] | F | 28 April 1912 | 13 January 2023 | 110 years, 260 days | Southwest Finland | Uusimaa |
8 | Saara Ahonen [5] | F | 24 November 1909 | 29 May 2020 | 110 years, 187 days | Pirkanmaa | Tavastia Proper |
9 | Astrid Qvist [6] | F | 6 March 1912 | 18 July 2022 [7] [8] | 110 years, 134 days | Ostrobothnia | Ostrobothnia |
10 | Helfrid Eriksson [9] | F | 23 June 1908 | 23 October 2018 | 110 years, 122 days | Uusimaa | Ostrobothnia |
11 | Anna Hagman [1] | F | 27 December 1895 | 18 April 2006 | 110 years, 112 days | Åland | Åland |
12 | Helvi Kissala [10] | F | 26 October 1913 | Living | 110 years, 79 days | Pirkanmaa | Pirkanmaa |
13 | Elsa Tilkanen [1] | F | 26 September 1896 | 5 December 2006 | 110 years, 70 days | Southwest Finland | Southwest Finland |
14 | Helvi Kärki [11] | F | 7 December 1906 | 23 January 2017 | 110 years, 47 days | Pirkanmaa | Tavastia Proper |
Aarne Armas Arvonen (4 August 1897 – 1 January 2009 [12] ) lived for 111 years and 150 days. He became the last known living Finn to have been born in the 1800s, a time when Finland was still an autonomous part of the Russian Empire. [12]
Arvonen was born in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland. His mother died when the First World War broke out, and his father, a left-wing journalist and agitator, remarried.
He lost an eye after an accident playing with a gun. He was in the Red Guard in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, and later became its last surviving veteran. During the war, he was captured by the Whites during the battle of Joutseno and survived a year at the Tammisaari prison camp. [13] He married Sylvi Emilia Salonen and had two daughters, Irma and Paula. They lived in the Kallio district of Helsinki. When his wife died in 1938, he moved to Järvenpää, where he continued to work in his profession as a decorative carpenter. In the summer of 2005, Arvonen was still living in a house he had built himself.[ citation needed ] Eventually he moved into the Vanhankylänniemi rest home. [14] Arvonen had been interested in astronomy since childhood and in 1921 he became a founding member of the Finnish amateur astronomy association Ursa; his membership lasted nearly 87 years. He celebrated his 111th birthday in 2008 with his family. [15]
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