What is Chandra Bahadur Dangi?
[[File:Chandra 04.jpg|thumb|Dangi in February 2012.]] '''Chandra Bahadur Dangi''' ({{Lang-ne|[[:ne:चन्द्रबहादुर डाँगी|चन्द्रबहादुर डाँगी]]}}{{Audio|Chandra Bahadur Dangi.ogg|Listen}}; 30 November 1939 &ndash; 3 September 2015) was a [[Nepal]]ese farmer and craftsman. He was best known for being the [[List of shortest people|shortest man]] in [[recorded history]], measuring {{Height|m=0.546|precision=1}}. Dangi was a [[Primordial dwarfism|primordial dwarf]]. He broke the record of [[Gul Mohammed]] (1957&ndash;1997), the shortest adult human whose height was {{Height|m=0.57|precision=0}}. He was born in Kalimati, [[Salyan District, Nepal|Salyan District]]. Dangi died from [[pneumonia]] on 3 September 2015 in [[Pago Pago]], [[American Samoa]], aged 75.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/09/04/the-worlds-shortest-man-dies-a-photo-tribute-to-nepals-chandra-bahadur-dangi/|title=The World’s Shortest Man Dies, a Photo Tribute to Nepal’s Chandra Bahadur Dangi|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=4 September 2015|access-date=4 September 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dangi, Chandra Bahadur}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from pneumonia]] [[Category:Infectious disease deaths in the United States]] [[Category:Nepalese people]] [[Category:People with dwarfism]] [[Category:World record holders]] {{Bio-stub}}