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Dag Hammarskjöld

1905 - 1961

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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld ( HAM-ər-shuuld, Swedish: [ˈdɑːɡ ˈhâmːarˌɧœld] ; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. As of 2024, he remains the youngest person to have held the post, having been only 47 years old when he was appointed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dag Hammarskjöld has received more than 3,317,710 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia. Dag Hammarskjöld is the 6th most popular diplomat (down from 5th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 24th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Diplomat.

Dag Hammarskjöld was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 to 1961. He led the UN through its most turbulent period, helping to end the 1956 Suez Crisis, the Congo Crisis, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. On September 18, 1961, he died in a plane crash in what is now Zambia.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Dag Hammarskjöld ranks 6 out of 90. Before him are Pocahontas, Kofi Annan, John Jay, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, and Gaius Marius. After him are Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Alexandra Kollontai, Ban Ki-moon, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Raoul Wallenberg, and Lucien Bonaparte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Dag Hammarskjöld ranks 10. Before him are Simo Häyhä, Albert Speer, Elias Canetti, Viktor Frankl, Greta Garbo, and Henry Fonda. After him are Christian Dior, Carl David Anderson, Faustina Kowalska, Mikhail Sholokhov, Astrid of Sweden, and Vasily Grossman. Among people deceased in 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld ranks 5. Before him are Ernest Hemingway, Carl Jung, Erwin Schrödinger, and Patrice Lumumba. After him are Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Emily Greene Balch, Gary Cooper, Percy Williams Bridgman, Jules Bordet, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Mohammed V of Morocco.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Dag Hammarskjöld ranks 23 out of 1,879. Before him are Svante Arrhenius (1859), Olof Palme (1927), Ingrid Bergman (1915), Greta Garbo (1905), Gustav I of Sweden (1496), and Bridget of Sweden (1303). After him are Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626), Oscar II of Sweden (1829), Ingrid of Sweden (1910), Oleg of Novgorod (900), Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1622), and Dieterich Buxtehude (1637).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Sweden

Among diplomats born in Sweden, Dag Hammarskjöld ranks 1. After him are Raoul Wallenberg (1912), Folke Bernadotte (1895), Alva Myrdal (1902), and Hans Blix (1928).

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