Kalevi Keihänen

Åke Kalevi Keihänen was a Finnish travel agency entrepreneur, director of Keihäsmatkat and a groundbreaking figure in Finnish tourism. Keihänen became known for his extravagant behaviour, long hair and unique style of dress – in advertisement photography, he wore a chinchilla fur coat with only a pair of swimming trunks underneath. The coat was said to have cost him 120,000 markka. Keihänen was said to have copied his style of dress from the Danish travel agency entrepreneur Simon Spies.

28 June 1924

Born on the same birth day (28 June): Alexis Carrel • Franz Antel • John Byner • Julia Zlobina • Kathy Bates • Ken Buchanan • Mick Cronin (rugby league) • Muhammad Yunus • Pete Candoli

Born in the same month (June 1924): Bob Appleyard • Christopher Booth • Friedrich L. Bauer • Fritz Koenig • George H. W. Bush • Hédi Fried • June Callwood • Kostas Axelos • Philip H. Hoff • Pontus Hultén • Roy Walford • The Sheik (wrestler) • Torsten Wiesel • Yoshito Takamine