Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner was born on 20 April 1969 to parents Eva Baumgartner and Felix Baumgartner.
Felix was born to mother Eva in Salzburg, Austria. There’s not much information on his parents. He has a younger brother Gerard.
As a child, Felix dreamed about flying and skydiving and in 1999, he claimed the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Felix also set the world record for the lowest BASE jump ever, when he jumped 29 metres (95 ft) from the hand of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.
However, this jump stirred controversy among BASE jumpers who pointed out that Felix cited the height of the statue as the height of the jump even though he landed on a slope below the statue’s feet, and that other BASE jumpers had previously jumped from the statue but avoided publicity.
Felix became the first person to BASE jump from the completed Millau Viaduct in France on 27 June 2004 and the first person to skydive onto, then BASE jump from, the Turning Torso building in Malmö, Sweden, on 18 August 2006.
On 12 December 2007, he became the first person to jump from the 91st floor observation deck of the then-tallest completed building in the world, Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan.