Ladan and Laleh Bijani
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Ladan and Laleh Bijani were Iranian conjoined twin sisters. They were joined at the head and died soon after their complicated surgical separation. Coincidentally, the twins were born a century to the
Ladan (left) and Laleh (right) Bijani in a press conference in June 2003, about one month before their deaths
Chang and Eng Bunker
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Chang Bunker and Eng Bunker were Siamese-American conjoined twin brothers whose fame propelled the expression "Siamese twins" to become synonymous for conjoined twins in general. They were widely exhi
Ladan and Laleh Bijani
…at the head and died soon after their complicated surgical separation. Coincidentally, the twins were born a century to the day after the deaths of Chang and Eng Bunker, also conjoined twins, famously known as the "original" Siamese twins. Laden and Laleh Bijani were born on 17 January 1974, in Firuzabad, a city in…
Eng (left) and Chang (right) in later years
Colored sketching of the young twins
Early reports on the twins described them as young boys, a label they tried to shake.
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