2009 in Finland

The following lists events that happened in 2009 in Finland.

← 2008 2007 2006 2009 in Finland → 2010 2011 2012
Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2009 Timeline of Finnish history

Incumbents

• President – Tarja Halonen
• Prime Minister – Matti Vanhanen
• Speaker – Sauli Niinistö

Events

• 7 June – 2009 European Parliament election in Finland
• 31 December – the Sello mall shooting

Deaths

Aarne Arvonen

• 1 January – Aarne Arvonen, supercentenarian, oldest living male person in Finland (b. 1897)
• 10 January – Pauli Salonen, Nordic combined skier (b. 1916).^[1]
• 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, lawyer, adventure traveller and writer (b. 1911)
• 13 July – Uma Aaltonen, journalist and politician (b. 1940)
• 25 August – Mirja Lehtonen, cross country skier (b. 1942).^[2]