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Dangi died in American Samoa on 3 September 2015 at the age of 75, at the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Hospital in Pago, Pago. The exact cause of his death was not disclosed, although The Kathmandu Post reported that he had previously been suffering from pneumonia.
At 54.6 cm (21.5 in), Nepalese-born Chandra Bahadur Dangi was, at the time of his death in 2015, the world's shortest person ever verified. This list includes the shortest ever verified people in their lifetime or profession. The entries below are broken down into different categories which range from sex, to age group and occupations.
Following the death of Chandra Bahadur Dangi on September 3, 2015, [9] Balawing held the title of the shortest living man until his death at the age of 27 on July 28, 2020. He had been hospitalized for pneumonia. [10] [11] Prior to his death, he resided in Dapitan with his family. [1]
The world's shortest man ever recorded, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, dies from pneumonia in an American Samoan hospital at age 75. Dangi lived with his family in Dang District, Nepal. His height, listed in the Guinness World Records, is 54.6 centimeters / 21.5 inches. (Kathmandu Post) (Daily Pakistan)
Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 75, Nepalese primordial dwarf, shortest man in recorded history, pneumonia. [42] Harold Drasdo, 85, English rock climber and writer. [43] Giltedge, 29, Irish-born American eventing horse. [44] Dan Eley, 100, British chemist (Eley-Rideal mechanism). [45] Claude Flahault, 92, French Olympic sailor. [46]
In 2012, though, it became known that Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal stood only 1 ft 9.5 in (54.6 cm) tall. Today, Pauline Musters is regarded as the fourth shortest documented person (after Muhammed, Dangi, and Junrey Balawing of the Philippines) and as the shortest documented woman of all times. [8]
In 2012, she met the world's shortest man, Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal. The pair posed together for the 57th edition of the Guinness World Records. [10] On 21 November 2024, she met for the first time Rumeysa Gelgi, the tallest living woman in the world, at the Savoy Hotel in London. [11]
Gul Mohammed (February 15, 1957 – October 1, 1997) of New Delhi, India, according to Guinness World Records, was the shortest adult human being of his time whose existence and height have been independently verified.