Person    | Male  Born 26/7/1905  Died 18/9/1961

Dag Hammarskjold

UN Secretary General, 1951-61. Died in a suspicious plane crash in the Congo. In September 2013 the official Hammarskjold Commission cautiously recommended further investigations into the cause of the crash.

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Dag Hammarskjold

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