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): Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven • Antti Aarne • Catherine Tate • Christina Rossetti • Clyde Cessna • Elbert Frank Cox • Hans Hellmut Kirst • Krystian Zimerman • Kwon Yu-ri • Paula Patton • Xavier Garbajosa

Born in the same month (December 1927): Alan King • Antony Gardner • Audrey Wagner • Bob Farrell (motivational speaker) • Denis Gifford • Helen Watts • James Wright (poet) • Jan Kubíček • Jim Simpson (sportscaster) • Nityanand Swami (politician) • Peter Dickinson • Pierre Henry • Robert Noyce • Roméo LeBlanc • Stu Miller