# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nick-piantanida
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:01:55.009Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nick-piantanida"
name: "Nick Piantanida"
slug: "nick-piantanida"
description: "Nicholas John Piantanida was an American amateur parachute jumper who reached 123,500 feet with his Strato Jump II balloon on February 2, 1966, flying a crewed balloon higher than anyone before, a record that stood until Felix Baumgartner's flight on October 14, 2012."
tagline: "American amateur parachute jumper (1932–1966)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Nick_Piantanida_milking_snake.jpg/330px-Nick_Piantanida_milking_snake.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1932-08-15"
deathDate: "1966-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.01
  momentum:             2.058823529411765
  historical:           5.503242666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Piantanida"
    title: "Nick Piantanida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Piantanida"
    title: "Nicholas Piantanida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Piantanida"
    title: "Nick Piantanida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Piantanida"
    title: "Nick Piantanida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Piantanida"
    title: "Nick Piantanida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Piantanida"
    title: "Nicholas Piantanida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922577"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump