# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simo-hayha
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:11:58.199Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/simo-hayha"
name: "Simo Häyhä"
slug: "simo-hayha"
description: "The deadliest sniper in history: a Finnish farmer who killed over 500 Soviet soldiers in fewer than 100 days during the Winter War, earning the nickname The White Death."
tagline: "Finnish military sniper (1905–2002)"
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birthDate: "1905-12-17"
deathDate: "2002-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Simo Häyhä was born 17 December 1905 and lived as a farmer before the Soviet Union invaded Finland in November 1939. Armed with a Finnish M/28-30 rifle and a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun, he estimated in his private war memoir — written in 1940, months after being wounded, and hidden until its 2017 discovery — that he shot around 500 enemy soldiers between 13 November 1939 and 13 March 1940. He survived the war and lived until 1 April 2002. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Finland's NATO membership have revived attention to his story, while his cult reputation has spread into metal lyrics and Japanese manga.