Hilkka Kinnunen has died at the age of 101. She carried the honorary Finnish title of theatre councillor. The announcement of her death did not say when or where she passed away, or what caused it. The title of teatterineuvos is granted in Finland for long and meritorious work in theatre. Recipients are usually recognised after decades spent in the country's stage life. Born more than a century ago, Kinnunen lived through a hundred years of Finnish cultural history.