2011 in Finland
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The following lists events that happened in 2011 in Finland.
Incumbents
Events
- 17 April – Finnish parliamentary election, 2011
- 16 October – the Ålandic legislative election, 2011
- 26 December – Tapani was dubbed the worst storm in Finland in 10 years.[1]
Deaths
- 11 February – Bo Carpelan, poet (b. 1926)
- 26 March – Yrjö Hietanen, sprint canoer (b. 1927).[2]
- 27 May – Jukka Toivola, long-distance runner and chemist (b. 1949).[3]
- 12 June – Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, writer and translator (b. 1947)
- 5 July – Mika Myllylä, cross country skier (b. 1969)
- 7 August – Harri Holkeri, statesman, Prime Minister of Finland 1987–1991, speaker of the UN General Assembly 2000–2001 (b. 1937)
- 25 October – Sinikka Keskitalo, long-distance runner (b. 1951).[4]
- 5 November – Hannu Haapalainen, ice hockey player (b. 1951)
- 8 November – Lauri Sutela, military officer (b. 1918)
References
- ↑ "Värsta stormen på tio år" (in Swedish). HBL.fi. 26 December 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ↑ "Yrjö Hietanen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ↑ "Jukka Toivola". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ↑ "Sinikka Keskitalo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
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