Bhumibol Adulyadej

Bhumibol Adulyadej, conferred with the title King Bhumibol the Great, was the ninth king of Thailand from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IX, from 1946 until his death in 2016. His reign of 70 years and 126 days is the longest of any Thai monarch, the longest of an independent Asian sovereign and the third longest verified reign of any monarch of a sovereign state in history after Louis XIV and Elizabeth II.

5 December 1927

Born on the same birth date (5 December 1927): W. D. Amaradeva

Born on the same birth day (5 December): David Manning • Helen Dettweiler • Jim Messina (musician) • Martin Van Buren • Pablo Morales

Born in the same month (December 1927): Antony Gardner • Bob Farrell (motivational speaker) • Helen Watts • Jack S. Blanton • James Booth • James Wright (poet) • Jim Fuchs • Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark • Niklas Luhmann • Peter Dickinson • Ralph Beard • Ramsey Clark • Randall Garrett • Richard Long (actor) • Roméo LeBlanc • Vladimir Shatalov