The following lists events that happened in 2009 in Finland.

Incumbents

* President – Tarja Halonen * Prime Minister – Matti Vanhanen * Speaker –

Sauli Niinistö Sauli Väinämö Niinistö (; born 24 August 1948) is a Finnish politician who has served as president of Finland since March 2012, the 12th person to hold that office. A lawyer by education, Niinistö was Chairman of the National Coalition Part ...

Events

*31 December – the

Sello mall shooting The Sello mall shooting occurred on the morning of 31 December 2009 shortly after 10:08 local time at the Prisma hypermarket in Sello mall, located in the Leppävaara district of Espoo, Finland. Ibrahim Shkupolli, who was born in Yugoslavia but h ...

Deaths

*1 January –

Aarne Arvonen 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. All Finnish supercentenarians wer ...

, supercentenarian, oldest living male person in Finland (b. 1897) *10 January –

Pauli Salonen Pauli Salonen (14 February 1916, Hollola – 10 January 2009) was a Finnish nordic combined skier who competed during the 1940s. He finished seventh in the individual event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ). Swiss ...

, Nordic combined skier (b. 1916). *23 February – August Kiuru, cross country skier (b. 1922) *15 May – Helvi Sipilä, diplomat, lawyer, politician and promoter of women's rights (b. 1915) *21 May –

Christer Boucht Christer Boucht, born 4 March 1911 in Vaasa, Finland, and died 21 May 2009, in the same city. He was a Finnish-Swedish lawyer, adventure traveler and writer. Christer Boucht served as a young reserve officer in both the Winter War and the Conti ...

, lawyer, adventure traveller and writer (b. 1911) *13 July –

Uma Aaltonen Ulla-Maija "Uma" Aaltonen (28 August 1940, Vihti – 13 July 2009, Helsinki) was a Finnish people, Finnish author, journalist, and Green League politician. Early life and education Aaltonen was raised on a farm and learned to love animals ...

, journalist and politician (b. 1940) *25 August – Mirja Lehtonen, cross country skier (b. 1942).

References

{{Year in Europe, 2009 2000s in Finland Finland Finland Years of the 21st century in Finland