March 14, 1904 – November 20, 1965 (61)
Finnish and Soviet communist politician, poet, writer, translator and journalist, Minister for Agriculture of the Finnish Democratic Republic, Head of the Arts Department under the Council of People's Commissars of the Karelian-Finnish SSR, Editor-in-chief of Punalippu magazine, Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelian-Finnish SSR, presenter of Comintern's Finnish-language programmes, Chairman of the Writers' Union of the Karelian-Finnish SSR