Hilda Häkkinen

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Hilda Maria Häkkinen (18 February 1894 – 31 December 2005)^{[citation needed]} was a Finnish supercentenarian. She was born in Töysä.^{[citation needed]}

By the time of her death, Häkkinen was the oldest living Finn.^{[citation needed]} She is also the second or third longest-lived Finn ever.^{[citation needed]} Lempi Rothovius lived to 112, and Maria Andersson is rumoured to have been 117, when she died in the 1940s.^{[citation needed]}

Häkkinen claimed she had been born on 18 March,^{[citation needed]} but according to official papers, the correct birthday is 18 February.^{[citation needed]} She spent her last years in the service house Elviira.^{[citation needed]} The President Tarja Halonen was present in her 111th birthday.^{[citation needed]}