List of Finnish supercentenarians

Aarne Arvonen (1897–2009), from Finland, was one of the oldest documented men ever, living for 111 years and 150 days.

Aarne Armas "Arska" Arvonen (4 August 1897 – 1 January 2009[4]) was a Finnish supercentenarian who 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.[4] Born in Helsinki, Arvonen served for the Red Guard in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, and later became its last surviving veteran. After the war he spent a year at the Tammisaari prison camp.[5] He married Sylvi Emilia Salonen and had two daughters, Irma and Paula. They lived in the Kallio district of Helsinki. At this time Arvonen was a smoker. When his wife died in 1938, he moved to Järvenpää. In the summer of 2005, Arvonen was still living in a house he had built himself. Eventually he moved into the Vanhankylänniemi rest home.[6] Arvonen had been interested in astronomy since his childhood. In 1921 he became a founding member of the Finnish amateur astronomy association Ursa, and his membership lasted nearly 87 years. He visited London when he turned 100 in 1997. He celebrated his 111th birthday in 2008 with his family, but skipped his yearly trip to the local McArthur pub.[7]