death_date death_place birth_place image_size birth_date image article_title name occupation
4 september 2001 fall river , massachusetts fall river , massachusetts 190px 20 april 1962 henry joseph nasiff jr.jpg hank the angry drunken dwarf
 hank the angry drunken dwarf entertainer , radio personality
hank the angry drunken dwarf

hank the angry drunken dwarf -lrb- born henry joseph nasiff jr. ; april 20 , 1962 -- september 4 , 2001 -rrb- was an american entertainer .
hank appeared numerous times on the the howard stern show and on the televised studio segments which aired on the e! channel .
he was a member of the show 's wack pack .
his career began august 16 , 1996 when he entered stern 's studio at radio station wxrk -lrb- k-rock -rrb- in new york city .
hank was tall , and weighed .
hank received widespread media coverage in 1998 when he won a `` people '' magazine online poll asking the public to vote for the most beautiful person in the world as part of the run up promotion for the magazine 's `` 50 most beautiful people '' issue .
when the public was given the option to submit a write-in candidate , the magazine had not counted on 230,169 votes for hank the angry drunken dwarf -- beating out assorted celebrities by a wide margin .
in third place was leonardo dicaprio with 14,471 votes .
in the relatively still early years of public participation on the internet , various media critics picked up on this , wondering whether this was evidence of an emerging digital democracy .
