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Tapio Rautavaara

Finnish athletics competitor, recording artist; singer and film actor.

Born March 8th, 1915 in Pirkkala. [ref]

Died September 25th, 1979 at 64 years old in Oulunkylä (cerebral hemorrhage). [ref]

Occupations
composer, film actor, javelin thrower, poet, recording artist, singer, songwriter
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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir