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Angus MacAskill

Scottish strength athlete

Chandra Bahadur Dangi

Nepali man who was the shortest man in recorded history (1939–2015)

Collyer brothers

American compulsive hoarders

American sufferer of severe combined immunodeficiency (1971–1984)

Canadian flight attendant, long misidentified as the index case of the North American AIDS Crisis

Genie (feral child)

American feral child (born 1957)

Henrietta Lacks

African-American woman whose cancer cells produced the HeLa immortalised cell line

Oldest known person ever (1875–1997)

Jiroemon Kimura

Japanese supercentenarian, verified oldest living man in history

Jon Brower Minnoch

Heaviest ever recorded human

Man with severe deformities known as the Elephant Man

German youth kept in total isolation

Youngest confirmed mother in history

Irish cook who was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever in New York

British textile worker

Mbuti pygmy featured in an exhibit in 1904

Natural mummy of a man who lived c. 3,300 BCE

American brain injury survivor (1823–1860)

American teenager who died in 1969, thought to be the first death from AIDS in North America

American man who was the tallest person in recorded history

Rosemary Kennedy

Sister of John F. Kennedy

AIDS spokesperson and "poster boy"

Iron Age bog body from Denmark that was hanged to death

William James Sidis

American mathematician, polyglot and child prodigy (1898–1944)