Name the UN Secretary-General who died in an air-crash?

Dag Hammarskjold (Sweden)

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U. Thant (Myanmar)

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Kurt Waldheim (Austria)

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Javier Perez de Cuellar (Peru)

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Solution

The correct option is A Dag Hammarskjold (Sweden)
Dag Hammarskjold, a Swedish diplomat, became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1953 and died in a plane crash in 1961 while remaining in the office. He was called "the greatest statesman of the century" by John F. Kennedy, the American President.

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