Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American circus performer (d. 1984)
Susanna Bokoyni (24 April 1879 – 24 August 1984), also known as "Princess Susanna", was a Hungarian centenarian and circus performer who was listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-lived dwarf on record.
The second-longest lived is Rozika Ovitz Ovitz, a entertainer who was one of ten children, who which seven where born with dwarfism, that became the Ovitz performers, who had a music group called the Lilliput Troupe she was a Holocaust survivor from Rozavlea, Romania, who died at age 98.
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