Robert Earl Hughes
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Robert Earl Hughes (4 June 1926 in Monticello, Missouri - 10 July 1958 in Bremen, Indiana) was an American who was the heaviest human being ever recorded.
His chest was measured at 124 inches (10 feet 4 inches or 3.15 m), and weighed 486 kg (1,069 lbs). At the age of 6, he weighed 203 lbs; at 10, he weighed 378 lbs. By the time of his death, he weighed over half a ton.
He is often said to have been buried in a piano case. This error stems from a sentence that appeared in successive editions of the Guinness Book of World Records, which read, "He was buried in a coffin the size of a piano case." His headstone notes that he was the world's heaviest man at 1,069 pounds.
