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On 13 November 2014, as part of Guinness World Records Day, Dangi met the world's tallest living man, Sultan Kösen, at an event in London. [6] 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.
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]
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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)
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]
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]
On 13 November 2014, as part of Guinness World Records Day, Kösen met, for the first time, the world's shortest man ever recorded, Chandra Bahadur Dangi (54.6 cm (1 ft 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), at an event in London. [17] The difference between their heights was 196.4 cm (6 ft 5.32 in).