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30/03/2022 8:44 am
This is the updated version of the list I posted on the 110 club, with some more cases added. Since most of this data comes from American WW2 draft cards, the vast majority of the known SC heights are for male American SCs, although I was able to gather the heights of several other cases as well. It would be too much work to include sources for every single case, but feel free to ask if you want to know where I got particular ones from.
Blue = Male
Red = Female
Narcissa Rickman – 4’0 / 122 cm
Tane Ikai 136 cm / 4’4
Sarah Knauss - 4'7 / 139 cm (old age)
Beatrice Favre - 4'7 / 139 cm
Ida Alligier - 4'8 / 142 cm (old age)
Gengan Tonaki 144 cm / 4’8
Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia - 4'9 / 145 cm (young adult)
Augusto Oliveira Moreira – 145 cm / 4'9 (at 108)
Transito Ayala - 145 cm / 4'9 (as a SC)
Jean Teillet - 4'11 / 150 cm
Edna Parker – 4’11 / 150 cm
Jeanne Calment - 4'11 / 150 cm (youth), 4’6 / 137 cm (old age)
Natalia Villanueva – 150 cm / 4’11
Irma Schmidt – 5’ / 152 cm
Helen Johnson – 5’ 152 cm
Thomas Nelson 5’ 152 cm
Ernest Peronneau - 5' 152 cm
Salustiano Sanchez - 5' 152 cm
Flaviano jubane – 5’0 152 cm
Isabel Brito Guarin – 154cm / 5’0
Dominga Velasco – 5’
Amelia Barone – 5’1 / 154 cm
Julia Kabance – 5’1 / 154 cm
Ana Sara Marquez de Ramirez – 5’2 / 157 cm
Gordon Saunders - 5'2 / 157 cm (age 30)
Clara Huhn - 5'2 / 157 cm
Maria Hoffner - 5'2
Shigeyo Nakachi – 5’2 / 157 cm
Delio Venturotti – 5’2 / 157 cm
Emiliano Mercado del Toro – 5’2 / 157 cm
Maria Hoffner - 5'2 / 157 cm
Aarne Arvonen – 160 cm / 5'3
Walter Seward - 5'3 / 160 cm (age 45)
Doris Woodring - 5'3 / 160 cm in young age, 4'11 / 150 cm as a SC (her daughter is my uncle's wife, so I asked her myself)
Charlotte Hughes – 5’3 / 160 cm
Emilio Flores Marquez - 5'4 / 162 cm (30s)
Lora Trueblood – 5’4 / 162 cm
Frank Morimitsu – 5’4 / 162 cm
Christian Mortensen - 5'4 / 162 cm
Vincenzo Izzillo – 5’4 / 162 cm
Roger Auvin – 5’4 / 162 cm
Emma Didlake – 5’4 / 162 cm
Conrad Johnson – 5’4 / 162 cm
Louise Schaaf – 5’4 / 162 cm
John Mauch – 5’4 ½ / 164 cm
Ja Hyung Lee – 164 cm / 5'4 (aged 60)
Philip Sharp - 5'5 / 165 cm (on both WW2 draft and his drivers license in 2019)
Bill Sheetz - 5'5 / 165 cm (mid 30s)
Salvatore Fiore – 5’5 / 165 cm
Clarence Matthews - 5'5 / 165 cm
Aaron Bazemore – 5’5 / 165 cm
Ezra Hill - 5'6 / 168 cm (age 29)
Wash Wesley - 5'6 / 168 cm (30s)
Garland Adair - 5'6 / 168 cm
Adelheid Kirschbaum – 5’6 / 168 cm
John Campbell Ross – 5’6 / 168 cm
Carl Berner – 5’6 / 168 cm
Hillard Hudson – 5’6 / 168 cm
Lloyd Myers - 5'6 / 168 cm
Henry Allignham - 5'6 / 168 cm
Reuben Sinclair – 5’6 / 168 cm
Edward Bernard – 5’6 / 168 cm
Hilliard Hudson 5'6 / 168 cm
Felix Simoneaux - 5'7 / 170 cm
Robert Wiener – 5’7 / 170 cm
Henry Gandolfi – 5’7 / 170 cm
Herbert Engel – 5’7 / 170 cm
Peter Solum – 5’7 / 170 cm
Vartan Anooshian – 5’7 / 170 cm
Andrew Small – 5’7 / 170 cm
Phil Corio – 5’7 / 170 cm
Irving Piken - 5'7 / 170 cm
Giles Cropsey - 5'7 / 170 cm
George Johnson – 5’7 / 170 cm
Ernest Pusey - 5'7 1/2 / 172 cm (40s)
Fred Frazier - 5'8 / 173 cm (aged 40)
Earl Brush – 5’8 / 173 cm
Frank Ahmann - 5'8 / 173 cm (50s)
Nicanor Sanchez – 5’8 / 173 cm
Ethan Shelton - 5'8 / 173 cm
Michael DeSantis - 5'8 / 173 cm
Francis Smith - 5'8 / 173 cm
Harvey Hite – 5’8 / 173 cm
Charles Moors – 5’8 / 173 cm
Frank Levingston - 5'8 / 173 cm (age 35)
Zachariah Blackistone - 5'8 / 173 cm (age 100)
Julie Winnifred Bertrand - 5'8 / 173 cm (youth)
Walter Breuning - 5'8 / 173 cm (supercentenarian)
Frank Buckles - 5'8 / 173 cm (age 44)
Earl Bush - 5'8 / 173 cm
Henry Taylor – 5’8 / 173 cm
Anton Gilbert – 5’8 / 173 cm
Joe Hollins - 5'8 / 173 cm (30s)
Ardra King – 5’8 / 173 cm
Moses Hardy – 5’8 ½ / 174 cm
Claude Choules - 5'9 / 175 cm (40s)
Gerald Gilman – 5’9 / 175 cm
Henry Pfeiffer – 5’9 / 175 cm
Frank Fountas – 5’9 / 175 cm
Clarence Glauner - 5'9 / 175 cm
Joseph Hepworth 5’9 / 175 cm
Luther Goding – 5’9 / 175 cm
George Feldman – 5’9 / 175 cm
Francisco Juarez Iglesias – 5’9 / 175 cm (aged 110)
James McCoubrey - 5'10 / 178 cm (40s)
Shelby Harris - 5'10 / 178 cm (age 40)
Bill James – 5’10 / 178 cm
Arnold Hawkins - 5'10 / 178 cm
Richard Overton - 5'10 / 178 cm (age 34)
James Wiggins – 5’10 / 178 cm (age 62)
Llewellyn Shelton - 5'10 / 178 cm (30s)
Mark Behrends – 5’10 / 178 cm
Nels Berger – 5’10 / 178 cm
Charles Shebanek – 5’10 / 178 cm (early 50s)
Laurence Thompson – 5’10 / 178 cm
John McMorran – 5’10 ½ / 179 cm (age 52)
Lawrence Brooks - 5'10 1/2 / 179 cm (age 30)
Henry Hartmann - 5'11 / 180 cm (40s)
Ingemund Peterson – 5’11 / 180 cm (50s)
Linus Reinhart - 5'11 / 180 cm (50s)
Benjamin Holcomb – 5’11 / 180 cm (age 52)
Jack lockett – 5’11 / 180 cm
Robert Alexander Early - 6'+ / 183 cm+ (as a supercentenarian)
Reuel Millar – 6’1 / 185 cm
Alexander Imich - 6'2 / 188 cm
Melvin Campbell – 6’3 / 191 cm
SCs who I suspect were quite tall, but haven’t received confirmation for:
Bob Weighton
Alfred Date (I messaged his grandson on Facebook and he agreed that he was tall, but didn’t know the exact height)
Photos of Narcissa Rickman (the shortest known SC) and Melvin Campbell (the tallest known SC):
Robert Alexander Early at age 105, still taller than 6 foot-tall Richard Nixon:
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30/03/2022 10:46 am
Emma Morano 165 cm (youth), 150 cm (old age)
Iasir Tamar Gallesi 155 cm (youth), 140 cm (old age)
http://www.supercentenariditalia.it/persone-viventi-piu-longeve-in-italia.
Persone viventi più longeve in Italia – Supercentenari d'Italia (supercentenariditalia.it)
02/04/2022 10:02 am
It's kinda weird that WW1 draft registration cards didn't give actual heights, but in any case, Walter Richardson's says he was classified as "medium" height and "medium" build. Incidentally, his eye color is recorded as gray and his hair color as brown.
Valentino Stella was living in the US at the time of WW1. His height and build are both marked as "short", and his eye color is given as brown and his hair color as black.
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02/04/2022 11:15 am
This is the updated version of the list I posted on the 110 club, with some more cases added. Since most of this data comes from American WW2 draft cards, the vast majority of the known SC heights are for male American SCs, although I was able to gather the heights of several other cases as well. It would be too much work to include sources for every single case, but feel free to ask if you want to know where I got particular ones from.
[Long list]
Mendocino, thank you very much for the fantastic list!
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Topic starter
03/04/2022 8:51 pm
It's kinda weird that WW1 draft registration cards didn't give actual heights, but in any case, Walter Richardson's says he was classified as "medium" height and "medium" build. Incidentally, his eye color is recorded as gray and his hair color as brown.
Valentino Stella was living in the US at the time of WW1. His height and build are both marked as "short", and his eye color is given as brown and his hair color as black.
Arthur Carter and Frank Sylvester are both listed as "tall" in their draft cards, although it's unclear as to how definitive this height category actually was.
WW1 discharge papers list exact height, which is how I was able to figure out Moses Hardy's height:
I've tried to find Harry Patch's height in his WW1 records, but I was unsuccessful.
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01/07/2022 2:25 pm
Giovanni La Penna (1909-2020) was 160cm/5'3 in 2016:
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15/07/2022 9:33 pm
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04/01/2023 7:27 pm
Alex Grant (1904-2015) - 5'6/~167cm
Annabelle Holblinger (1909-present) - 5'1/~155cm
Both are according to travel records.
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04/01/2023 9:58 pm
I remember reading on a record that Juan Vicente Pérez Mora was 5'7", but I couldn't find the source. If I remember correctly I'm pretty sure Sarah Knauss was under 5'. Maybe 4'9? I also remember Kane Tanaka being short and Violet Brown being tall but again I cannot remember the source. I think it was on the 110 club. Salvatore Caruso looked very short in pictures, possibly around 4'9? I will try and see if I can find the sources, hope it helps.
|Male| 🎮Gamer🎮 > 👕Fashion Lover👕 > 🕶Chore Motivator🕶
Favorite Male SC: Juan Vicente Pérez Mora
Favorite Female SCs: Lucile Randon & Kane Tanaka
😁And the kind of guy that's always down to chat😁
04/01/2023 10:21 pm
I found Kane Tanaka's height listed at 5'3" on https://wikijay.com />kane-tanakas-height.
|Male| 🎮Gamer🎮 > 👕Fashion Lover👕 > 🕶Chore Motivator🕶
Favorite Male SC: Juan Vicente Pérez Mora
Favorite Female SCs: Lucile Randon & Kane Tanaka
😁And the kind of guy that's always down to chat😁
Topic starter
04/01/2023 11:57 pm
I remember reading on a record that Juan Vicente Pérez Mora was 5'7", but I couldn't find the source. If I remember correctly I'm pretty sure Sarah Knauss was under 5'. Maybe 4'9? I also remember Kane Tanaka being short and Violet Brown being tall but again I cannot remember the source. I think it was on the 110 club. Salvatore Caruso looked very short in pictures, possibly around 4'9? I will try and see if I can find the sources, hope it helps.
Juan Vicente was 160cm in 1973, or roughly 5'3. I guess I forgot to post this here:
I already have Sarah's height (4'7) in my list at the start of this thread.
Salvatore Caruso was definitely extremely short.
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Topic starter
05/01/2023 12:07 am
I found Kane Tanaka's height listed at 5'3" on https://wikijay.com />kane-tanakas-height.
That height was almost certainly randomly generated by a bot, since those types of websites just use fake data. Based on photos, Kane Tanaka was definitely much shorter than that. In this screenshot, she's standing next to a politician who's only 5'4, yet he looks massive next to her:
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09/10/2024 2:46 am
I want to clarify something: Only WWII draft cards for men born in 1897 onwards listed the height of these men, right? WWII draft cards for men born before 1897 did not list these men's height, correct? At least not with exact precision.
09/10/2024 2:49 am
Michael DeSantis - 5'8 / 173 cm
Can you please show us where exactly you found Michael DeSantis's WWII draft card, Mendocino? I tried finding it on familysearch.org and couldn't so far.
Also, what about Moon Fun Chin's (1913-2023) height? He has a WWII draft card too, right?
