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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 2023, 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 3,061,889 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2019). Dag Hammarskjöld is the 5th most popular diplomat (up from 6th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 25th 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 5 out of 52Before him are Pocahontas, Kofi Annan, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, and Gaius Marius. After him are Ban Ki-moon, John Jay, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Alexandra Kollontai, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Raoul Wallenberg, and Madeleine Albright.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Dag Hammarskjöld ranks 10Before him are Albert Speer, Simo Häyhä, Christian Dior, Viktor Frankl, Greta Garbo, and Elias Canetti. After him are Henry Fonda, Mikhail Sholokhov, Faustina Kowalska, Astrid of Sweden, Carl David Anderson, and Vasily Grossman. Among people deceased in 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld ranks 4Before him are Ernest Hemingway, Carl Jung, and Erwin Schrödinger. After him are Patrice Lumumba, Gary Cooper, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emily Greene Balch, Jules Bordet, Zog I of Albania, and Rafael Trujillo.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Dag Hammarskjöld ranks 24 out of 1,612Before him are Greta Garbo (1905), Oleg of Novgorod (900), Sigismund III Vasa (1566), Bridget of Sweden (1303), Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882), and Gustav I of Sweden (1496). After him are Agnetha Fältskog (1950), Oscar II of Sweden (1829), Gustaf V of Sweden (1858), Emanuel Swedenborg (1688), Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1622), and Dieterich Buxtehude (1637).

Among DIPLOMATS In Sweden

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