June 4, 1926: Robert Earl Hughes Born
On this day in 1926, Robert Earle Hughes was born in Fish Hook, Illinois. Thanks to a rare gland disorder, Hughes would became the heaviest man who ever lived. When he died of measles that turned into uremia in 1958, he weighed between 1,041 and 1,069 pounds. If you read the “Guiness Book of World Records” when you were a kid, you probably remember seeing his picture.