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By the end of the allowed public attendance on 30 September 2017 (later pushed forward to 5 October the same year), over 12 million people had paid their respects in person, a historic record crowd that, including foreign tourists and expats living in Thailand, broke all-time attendance records [21] and left an estimated 890 million Thai baht ...
Modern Central Thai culture has become more dominant due to official government policy, which was designed to assimilate and unify the disparate Thai in spite of ethnolinguistic and cultural ties between the non-Central-Thai-speaking people and their communities.
Bhumibol Adulyadej [b] [c] (5 December 1927 – 13 October 2016), titled Rama IX, was King of Thailand from 1946 until his death in 2016. His reign of 70 years and 126 days is the longest of any Thai monarch, the longest on record of any independent Asian sovereign, and the third-longest of any sovereign state.
Khun Poom Jensen [Note 1] (Thai: พุ่ม เจนเซน; RTGS: Phum; Thai pronunciation:; 16 August 1983 – 26 December 2004), born Bhumi Jensen (also spelled Poomi Jensen, [1] [2] [3] Thai: ภูมิ เจนเซน; RTGS: Phumi; Thai pronunciation:), was a grandson of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, after whom he was named.
Vicha Ratanapakdee (Thai: วิชา รัตนภักดี, RTGS: Wicha Rattanaphakdi; December 5, 1936 – January 30, 2021) was an 84-year old Thai man who was killed as a result of being forcefully pushed to the ground in a daylight attack in San Francisco, California, United States. He sustained life-threatening head injuries and ...
Duangphet Phromthep (Thai: ดวงเพชร พรหมเทพ; 3 July 2005 – 14 February 2023) was the Thai captain of the Wild Boars football team that was rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave in 2018. He won a football scholarship to England in 2022. He died by suicide in 2023.
Malaysia: Prime Minister Najib Razak offered his heartfelt condolences to the Thai royal family and the people of Thailand after the death of King Bhumibol. In a statement on Facebook, Najib wrote "King Bhumibol was a towering presence whose contribution to Thailand, and the rest of the region, is beyond words.
Keyes, Charles F. "Death of Two Buddhist Saints in Thailand." In Charisma and Sacred Biography, edited by Michael A. Williams, 149-180. Chambersburg, PA: American Academy of Religion, 1982. Premchit, Sommai. Prawati Khruba Siwichai nak bun haeng Lanna [The biography of Khruba Siwichai, the holy man of Lanna]. Chiang Mai: Ming Muang Press, 2000.