About Mathilda Cajdos
Lived 1877 – 1909 (aged 31–32). Mathilda Cajdos was a circus performer.
Mathilda Cajdos (January 1877 – 18 December 1909), known by the stage name Princess Nouma-Hawa was a famous Hungarian-American circus performer and animal trainer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was of unusually short stature and was called the shortest woman in the world. She was fluent in several languages including Hungarian, English, French and Italian.
Cajdos came to the United States in 1902 with Buffalo Bill's Wild West after having made a name for herself in Europe. In August 1903, she performed with the circus when it visited Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The couple toured with the newly formed American "Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus" in 1908.
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Who was Mathilda Cajdos?
Hungarian-American circus performer (1877-1909)
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Mathilda Cajdos was born in 1877.
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Mathilda Cajdos died on 18 December 1909.
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Mathilda Cajdos was a circus performer.
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