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Kai Setälä

Kai Setälä, Finnish physician and professor (died 2005)

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Born
September 13, 1913
Died
May 12, 2005
Zodiac sign
Virgo
Birth year
1913

About Kai Setälä

Kai Martin Edvard Setälä was a Finnish physician and professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Helsinki. Through his daughter Christel, he was the maternal grandfather of Alexander Stubb, the 13th president of Finland. Setälä himself was the great-nephew of professor E. N. Setälä (1864–1935), the Counsellor of State, the Chairman of the Senate of Finland and co-author of the Finnish Declaration of Independence. Setälä was a docent of radiotherapy at the University of Helsinki from 1948 to 1953, when he became a professor. Setälä graduated from Nurmes joint school in 1933 and graduated with a medical degree in 1941, when he also defended his doctorate in medicine and surgery.

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Kai Setälä timeline

  1. Setälä himself was the great-nephew of professor E. N. Setälä (1864–1935), the Counsellor of State, the Chairman of the Senate of Finland and co-author of the Finnish Declaration of Independence.
  2. Setälä graduated from Nurmes joint school in 1933 and graduated with a medical degree in 1941, when he also defended his doctorate in medicine and surgery.
  3. Setälä was a docent of radiotherapy at the University of Helsinki from 1948 to 1953, when he became a professor.

The world when Kai Setälä was born

Kai Setälä was born in 1913. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1913

  • Best-selling book"The Inside of the Cup" – Winston Churchill

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentJim Thorpe stripped of Olympic titles over amateurism rules
  • Top headline16th Amendment allows federal income tax
  • Technology milestoneFord assembly line begins — revolutionizes manufacturing
  • World population~1.73B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population96.0M

1913 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Kai Setälä's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19132026
Postage stamp$0.02$0.73
Population96.0M341 million

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