Phan Khôi

Phan Khôi was an intellectual leader who inspired a North Vietnamese variety of the Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm affair, in which scholars were permitted to criticize the Communist regime, but for which he himself was ultimately persecuted by the Communist Party of Vietnam.

20 August 1887

Born on the same birth day (20 August): Al Roker • Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle • Bernard de Bury • Egon Kaur • Graig Nettles • Henry Every • Jack Wilson (Australian cricketer) • James Prinsep • Jean-Loup Chrétien • John Boardman (art historian) • John Stehr • Leroy Burgess • Ranomi Kromowidjojo

Born in the same month (August 1887): Albert M. Greenfield • Anna Elisabet Weirauch • August Kippasto • August Wesley • Charles I of Austria • Dudley Benjafield • Erwin Schrödinger • Harry Hooper • István Kühár • Jivraj Narayan Mehta • John Anthony Sydney Ritson • Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk • Marcus Garvey • Oskar Anderson • Paul Kochanski • Reginald Owen • Rupert Brooke • S. Satyamurti