Bhumibol Adulyadej | |||||||||
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King Rama IX | |||||||||
![]() King Bhumibol in 1969 | |||||||||
King of Thailand | |||||||||
Reign | 9 June 1946 – 13 October 2016 | ||||||||
Coronation | 5 May 1950 | ||||||||
Predecessor | Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) | ||||||||
Successor | Vajiralongkorn (Rama X) | ||||||||
Born | Cambridge, Massachusetts, US | 5 December 1927||||||||
Died | 13 October 2016 Bangkok, Thailand | (aged 88)||||||||
Burial | 26 October 2017 | ||||||||
Spouse | |||||||||
Issue Detail |
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House | Mahidol (Chakri dynasty)[a] | ||||||||
Father | Mahidol Adulyadej | ||||||||
Mother | Sangwan Talapat | ||||||||
Religion | Theravada Buddhism | ||||||||
Signature | ![]() | ||||||||
Bhumibol Adulyadej | |
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Thai name | |
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Thai | ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช |
RTGS | Phumiphon Adunyadet |
Bhumibol Adulyadej (December 5, 1927 – October 13, 2016), was the King of Thailand from 9 June 1946 until 13 October 2016. Most people in Thailand knew him as "the Great" (Thai: มหาราช, Maharaja). He was also known as Rama IX. He was one of the world's longest-serving heads of state.[1]
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.[1][2] He was like a semi-divine figure for some Thais.[3][4][5]
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