Hans Blix

Hans Martin Blix is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. As such, Blix was the first Western representative to inspect the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union on-site and led the agency's response to them. Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from March 2000 to June 2003, when he was succeeded by Dimitris Perrikos. In 2002, the commission began searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, ultimately finding none. On 17 March 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush delivered an address from the White House announcing that within 48 hours, the United States would invade Iraq unless Saddam Hussein would leave. Bush then ordered all of the weapons inspectors, including Blix's team, to leave Iraq so that America and its allies could invade Iraq on 20 March. In February 2010, Blix became head of the United Arab Emirates' advisory board for its nuclear power program. He is the former president of the World Federation of United Nations Associations.

28 June 1928

Born on the same birth date (28 June 1928): Cyril Smith • Harold Evans • Patrick Hemingway

Born on the same birth day (28 June): Artur Hajzer • F. Sherwood Rowland • Itamar Franco • John Elway • John Wesley • Maria Goeppert Mayer • Mark Shand • Markéta Vondroušová • Muhammad Azam Shah • Oscar Hiljemark • Robert Asprin • Tiaan Strauss

Born in the same month (June 1928): Asrat Woldeyes • Cyril Smith • Harold Evans • John Forbes Nash Jr. • Michael Shaara • Michel Brault • Petros Molyviatis • Peyo • R. Geraint Gruffydd • Radius Prawiro • Ralph Waite • Renée Morisset • Ron Reynolds (footballer, born 1928) • Rudy Perpich • Steve Dodd • Yoshiro Nakamatsu