Mirin Dajo

Mirin Dajo
Promotional photograph of Mirin Dajo showing a foil piercing his thorax from back to front
Born
Arnold Gerrit Henskes

6 August 1912
Rotterdam
Died26 May 1948(1948-05-26) (aged 35)
Winterthur, Switzerland
OccupationEntertainer
Known forBody piercing

Arnold Gerrit Henskes (6 August 1912 – 26 May 1948), known by the pseudonym Mirin Dajo, was a Dutch performer. He became famous for radically piercing his body with all kinds of objects apparently without injury, even surprising the medical community at the time.

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