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Dag Hammarskjöld

The Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in suspicious circumstances in the Congo in September 1961. Rumors said that he was a homosexual.

Son of the Swedish Prime Minister (1914-1917) Hjalmar Hammarskjöld[?].

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