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Born September 3, 1900 • Finland
Died August 31, 1986 (aged 85) • Helsinki • Finland
Title / Office president (1956-1981), Finland

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president of Finland
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prime minister of India
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Bengt Gabrielsson, Count Oxenstierna
Swedish statesman
Souvanna Phouma
Souvanna Phouma
prime minister of Laos
Charles Pictet de Rochemont
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Martti Ahtisaari
president of Finland
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
president of Finland
Uno Cygnaeus
Finnish educator
Finland's first female president
Tarja Halonen
president of Finland
Johan Ludvig Runeberg, detail of an engraving by Émile Lassalle.
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Finnish-Swedish poet
Konni Zilliacus
Finnish patriot
Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen
Finnish politician
Otto V. Kuusinen
Finnish politician
Elias Lönnrot
Finnish folklorist
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
president of Finland
Vihtori Iisakki Kosola
Finnish political leader
Matthias Alexander Castrén
Finnish nationalist and linguist
Svinhufvud, detail from an oil painting by Antti Faven, 1923; in the Art Gallery of Ateneum, Helsinki
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
president of Finland