Dag Hammarskjöld – Axios Press

Dag Hammarskjöld

1905 – 1961

Swedish

Secretary-general of the U.N. He worked tirelessly to contain regional conflicts and died in the Congo. The later publication of his journals revealed a religious and especially a mystical side.

Contemporaries

1889–1951	Ludwig Wittgenstein
1929–2003	Bernard Williams
1862–1939	Edward Westermarck
1909–1943	Simone Weil
1864–1920	Max Weber
1858–1943	Beatrice Webb
1914–1981	Dame Barbara Ward
1912–c. 1947	Raoul Wallenberg
1864–1936	Miguel de Unamuno
1881–1955	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1920–2012	Thomas Szasz
1880–1958	Marie Stopes
1861–1925	Rudolph Steiner
1961–1996	Princess Diana
1847–1922	Georges Sorel
1856–1950	George Bernard Shaw
1911–1977	E. F. Schumacher
1893–1957	Dorothy Sayers
1874–1928	Max Scheler
1871–1922	Marcel Proust
1866–1943	Beatrix Potter
1922–1975	Pier Pasolini
1857–1928	Emmeline Pankhurst
1933–1967	Joe Orton
1903–1950	George Orwell
1880–1912	Lawrence Oates
1882–1945	Otto Neurath
1873–1958	G. E. Moore
1870–1952	Maria Montessori
1882–1956	A. A. Milne
1915–1968	Thomas Merton
1853–1932	Enrico Malatesta
1908–1973	Anna Magnani
1888–1935	T. E. Lawrence
1927–1989	R. D. Laing
1865–1936	Rudyard Kipling
1883–1924	Franz Kafka
1875–1961	Carl Jung
1873–1907	Alfred Jarry
1859–1947	Pierre Janet
1885–1952	Karen Horney
1914–2002	Thor Heyerdahl
1859–1932	Kenneth Grahame
1869–1951	André Gide
1910–1986	Jean Genet
1862–1921	Georges Feydeau
1879–1955	Albert Einstein
1912–1990	Lawrence Durrell
1868–1952	George Norman Douglas
1874–1945	Ernst Cassirer
1898–1956	Bertolt Brecht
1906–1945	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1847–1933	Annie Besant
1859–1941	Henri Bergson
1910–1989	Sir A. J. Ayer
1870–1937	Alfred Adler