Finland’s oldest known person, Gunnel Stenbäck, dies at 110

Gunnel Stenbäck, a deaconess and Finland’s oldest known living person, has died at the age of 110. She passed away peacefully on Saturday at the Helsinki Deaconess Institute’s care home, according to her family.

Born in 1914 on the Åland Islands, just months after the outbreak of the First World War, Stenbäck lived through all of Finland’s modern history, including two world wars and the terms of every Finnish president.