Harold Hongju Koh

Harold Hongju Koh is an American diplomat, lawyer, legal scholar, politician, and writer who served as the legal adviser of the Department of State in the Obama administration. He was nominated to this position by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2009, and confirmed by the Senate on June 25, 2009. He left the State Department in January 2013, returning to Yale University as a Sterling Professor of international law. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007.

8 December 1954

Born on the same birth date (8 December 1954): Frits Pirard

Born on the same birth day (8 December): Aleksandra Olsza • Andy Kapp • Arne Næss Jr. • Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson • Bob Arum • Bob Love • Elizabeth Daryush • Ernest Lehman • Frédéric Piquionne • George Rogers (American football) • Ian Johnson (cricketer) • James MacArthur • John Qualen • Kateryna Yushchenko (scientist) • Nancy Meyers • Rob Curling • Roy Firestone • Sam Kinison • Steve Yates (footballer, born 1953) • Teri Hatcher • Édson Ribeiro

Born in the same month (December 1954): François Van der Elst • Hermann Tilke • Jean-Claude Juncker • Kent Benson • Mark Warner • Ozzie Smith • Peter Hillary • Ray Liotta • Santiago Creel • Tony Ables