Home / Birthday profiles / Reino Kangasmäki
Portrait of Reino Kangasmäki

Birthday profile

Reino Kangasmäki

Reino Kangasmäki, Finnish wrestler (died 2010)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
July 2, 1916
Died
September 26, 2010
Zodiac sign
Cancer
Birth year
1916

About Reino Kangasmäki

Reino Kalervo Kangasmäki (2 July 1916 – 26 September 2010) was a journalist and a Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He won a bronze medal in the flyweight class at the 1948 Summer Olympics, his only major international tournament. At national championships Kangasmäki placed third in 1943 and second in 1947. Kangasmäki was born in a family of a lumberjack. He started training in wrestling around 1935 and retired in 1951. In 1953, he started as a journalist for the newspaper Kansan Ääni, and eventually became its chief editor.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

Reino Kangasmäki timeline

  1. At national championships Kangasmäki placed third in 1943 and second in 1947.
  2. He won a bronze medal in the flyweight class at the 1948 Summer Olympics, his only major international tournament.

The world when Reino Kangasmäki was born

Reino Kangasmäki was born in 1916. 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 1916

  • Best-selling book"Seventeen" – Booth Tarkington

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentGeorgia Tech defeats Cumberland 222-0, most lopsided football game ever
  • Top headlineBattle of the Somme — 1 million casualties
  • Technology milestoneTanks first used in warfare
  • Notable inventionMilitary tanks
  • World population~1.76B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population99.6M

1916 versus 2026

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

Measure19162026
Population99.6M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, International Olympic Committee, Olympedia, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.