14. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was the only person to survive both of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are famous for ending World War II. They are also infamous for the destruction and human suffering they left in their wake. One man, however, managed to survive both bombings- despite being only 1.8 miles from the drop site on both occasions. Twenty-nine-year-old Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on August 8, 1945, when a US bomber dropped the ‘Little Boy” atomic bomb on the city, killing 14,000 people. Yamaguchi sustained non-life-threatening burns to his upper body and two days later returned home to Nagasaki. The very next day, Nagasaki lost 73,000 people to the bomb known as ‘fat man.’ Tsutomu survived with only minor injuries.