Kofi Annan Death
Kofi passed away on 18 August 2018 at the age of 80 in Bern, Switzerland.
When did Kofi Annan die?
18 August 2018How old was Kofi Annan when died?
80Where did Kofi Annan die? What was the location of death?
Bern, Switzerland
Kofi Annan Birthday and Date of Death
Kofi Annan was born on April 8, 1938 and died on 18 August 2018. Kofi was 80 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: April 8, 1938
Date of Death: 18 August 2018
Age at Death: 80
Kofi Annan - Biography
Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." He is the founder and the Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as being the chairman of The Elders, a group founded by Nelson Mandela.
Kofi Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) on 8 April 1938. His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shared the middle name Atta, which in the Akan means 'twin'. Annan and his sister were born into one of the country's Ashanti and Fante aristocratic families; both of their grandfathers and their uncle were tribal chiefs.
In 1965, Kofi Annan married Titi Alakija, a Nigerian woman from an aristocratic family. Several years later they had a daughter, Ama, and later a son, Kojo. The couple separated in the late 1970s, and divorced in 1983. In 1984, Annan married Nane Annan (sv; et; ru), a Swedish lawyer at the UN and a maternal half-niece of Raoul Wallenberg. She has a daughter, Nina, from a previous marriage.
