deaths
May 3, 1948
Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish assassin of Heikki Ritavuori (born 1876)
Ernst Tandefelt
Knut Ernst Robert Tandefelt was a Swedish-speaking Finnish nobleman.
Heikki Ritavuori
Heikki Ritavuori was a Finnish lawyer, a politician from the National Progressive Party, a member of the Parliament of Finland and Minister of the Interior. He was the closest colleague of President K. J. Ståhlberg and was Minister of the Interior in J. H. Vennola's first and second cabinets from 1919 to 1922 for a total of 526 days. Minister Ritavuori was shot dead at the door to his home in Helsinki in February 1922.