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): Bobby Bare Jr. • Carloman I • Chris Leslie • Guillermo Martínez (javelin thrower) • Jim Spanarkel • Leona Aglukkaq • Mark Helprin • Patrick Hemingway • Peeter Allik • Robert Xavier Rodriguez • Ron Luciano • William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

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