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Tapio Rautavaara
Finnish athletics competitor, recording artist; singer and film actor.
Born March 8th, 1915 in Pirkkala.
Died September 25th, 1979 at 64 years old in Oulunkylä (cerebral hemorrhage).
Occupations
composer, film actor, javelin thrower, poet, recording artist, singer, songwriter
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde