Todd Allen Posted November 24, 2019 Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 Stumbled on this curious case of a giant of a man living much longer than his peers, died at 81 in 1919. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren_Bates Unfortunately his even larger wife died abruptly at 42 and their son also a record holder with a birth height of nearly 30" at 23 lbs 9 oz lived for just half a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccoy Posted November 25, 2019 Report Share Posted November 25, 2019 Interesting, among the world's tallest people he seems to be the longest-lived, and only very few went over the age of 70 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd Allen Posted November 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2019 Mccoy thanks for posting the list of tallest people. It doesn't look like any of the tallest women have had good longevity which I find interesting since women typically outlive men. I wonder if there is a stronger inverse correlation between height and longevity for women than for men? I think most super centenarian women were significantly shorter than average. It looks like Martin's record longevity for a tallest person will be broken since a couple others have come very close and there are so many on the tallest list currently living. Although Martin was born in 1837 when life expectancy was barely half of what it is today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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