Robert Wadlow
American who was the tallest recorded person in history (1918-1940) · United States · Actors · Died at 22
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Something wrong?8 feet 11 inches at his death - the tallest human being ever confirmed by measurement. A pituitary condition that never stopped, and a frame that kept expanding past every limit the body was built to hold.
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![Wadlow's shoe (US size 37 AA; UK size 36 or approximately European size 75) compared to a US size 12[2]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Wadlow_shoe_compared.jpg/1280px-Wadlow_shoe_compared.jpg)
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Robert Pershing Wadlow was born February 22, 1918, in Alton, Illinois, a small city across the river from St. Louis. Hypertrophy of his pituitary gland flooded his system with growth hormone, and his body responded without brake or ceiling. By the time he died on July 15, 1940, at twenty-two years old, he stood 8 feet 11.1 inches and weighed 439 pounds. He grew up in Alton and never stopped growing in adulthood, his skeleton stretching past the architecture of normal human life. The condition that made him the tallest person in recorded history also ensured he wouldn't survive it long.
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