Dag Hammarskjold

Dag Hammarskjold

politician

BIRTHDAY July 29, 1905
BIRTH SIGN Leo
BIRTHPLACE Sweden
AGE ? years old
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ABOUT DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Second Secretary-General of the United Nations who is one of the select few to be honored with a Nobel Prize posthumously.

His political career began when he was a public servant who became State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and overlapped that with Governor of the Riksbank.

He also served as a Swedish delegate in the Organization for European Economic Cooperation and Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He was born in Jönköping, Sweden and died in a plane crash.

John F. Kennedy believed him to be one of the greatest statesman ever.