Simo Häyhä
Finnish military sniper (1905–2002)
- Fame60.9
- Momentum0.6
- Business Professionals rank#184
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- Fame60.9
- Momentum0.6
- Business Professionals rank#184
- Wikipedia151.4K
Lived 1905–2002, aged 97
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Updated 2026-06-08
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.
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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 J…
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