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Every day she conducted three performances. To attract media attention, Verschueren had promised a reward of 12,000 Guilders to any person of at least 17 years of age who was smaller than Musters. [2] Pauline Musters was soon well liked in New York for her beauty and gracefulness; she was described as polite, calm, and gentle. [citation needed]
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern, [3] Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr., [4] Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585 Sr., [5] and Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590 Sr., [6] among others, 4 August 1914 – 24 October 1997) was a German-born American typesetter who held the record for the longest personal name ever used.
Albert Stevens (1887–1966), also known as patient CAL-1 and most radioactive human ever, was a house painter from Ohio who was subjected to an involuntary human radiation experiment and survived the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human. [1]
Christopher Michael Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American horse rancher and former bar bouncer, known for scoring highly on an IQ test that gained him entry to a high IQ society, and for being formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records high IQ section under the pseudonym of Eric Hart, alongside Marilyn vos Savant and Keith Raniere.
Angus MacAskill (1825 – 8 August 1863) was a Scottish-born Canadian giant. In its 1981 edition the Guinness Book of World Records stated he was the strongest man, the tallest non-pathological giant and the largest true giant in recorded history at 7 feet 9 inches (2.36 m), he also had the largest chest measurements of any non-obese man at 80 inches (203 cm).
Conrad Heyer (April 10, 1749 or 1753 [Note 1] – February 19, 1856) was an American farmer, veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and centenarian.He is often credited as being the earliest-born person to have been photographed alive, although several other contenders are known, most notably a shoemaker named John Adams and Caesar, an African.
Zárate is the first person to have been identified with Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II. [2] She was entered into the Guinness World Records as the "lightest recorded adult", weighing 4.7 pounds (2.1 kg) at the age of 17. [3] [4]
According to Schwartz, he was "probably more than that. He was by at least 300 pounds the heaviest person ever reported", and "probably the most unusual thing about [Minnoch's] case was that he lived". [21] He reached a peak body mass index (BMI) of 186 kg/m 2 [27] and spent several days on a respirator. [18]