Dag Hammarskjöld

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld () (29 July 1905 ? 18 September 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and author and was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. He served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. He is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously. Hammarskjöld remains the only U.N. Secretary-General to die in office.

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U.S. President John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjöld ?the greatest statesman of our century.?

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