"The Role of the United Nations" /repositories/3/archival_objects/573575 Hammarskjøld, Dag (1905-1961) Rockefeller, David (1915-2017) 1 folder 1959 June 18 450 4 Hammarskjøld, Dag (1905-1961) Biographical / Historical

Dag Hammarskjöld was born on 29 July 1905 in Jönköping, Sweden, and died 18 September 1961 near Ndola, in Northern Rhodesia. He was a Swedish economist and statesman who served as the second secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-1961), during which time he enhanced the prestige and effectiveness of the UN. Hammarskjöld was posthumously awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1961.