- Juggler, whose specialty was balancing teacups on his head, while riding a unicycle - sometimes while wife threw sugar cubes into them at the same time!.
- He appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show four times.
- In the year of 1949, Horn had joined the Circus Krone. Once he joined the circus, he was able to obtain a unicycle that he learned how to ride within a week. Once he incorporated the unicycle into his teacup act, he became even more popular.
- He retired from juggling in 1975 and became a tennis coach.
- He had the skill of continuously bouncing seven balls off of a drum.
- He finally retired in the year of 1975 in the Bertchesgaden, which is located in the Bavarian Alps. This is when he took up his second job of being a tennis coach.
- He traveled to America to perform in Las Vegas, Reno, Chicago, and San Francisco, but eventually in the year of 1955 he went back to Germany.
- In the year of 1973, he was awarded the Rastelli award, which is the highest honor for a juggler.
- One of the stunts that he was known for other than juggling is that he would be able to stack up teacups and their saucers on his head from kicking them up from his foot.
- Since the currency after the war in Germany was basically worthless at the time, he would work for cigarettes and chocolate that he would barter for food.
- Rudy Horn grew up in Nuernberg, Germany during the time of World War II. On Christmas Eve in the year of 1940, Rudy Horn was given three apples from his father. It was then that his father had encouraged him to start juggling them. He began at age 7 and later toured around the world. He continued with this talent since this day on. Two years later after he was given these apples from his father, he gave his first performance in the WIntergarden. In the next five years that followed the war, he entertained the troops from the United States that were located in Germany.
- He is an inductee of the Juggling Hall of Fame.
- The German government awarded Rudy Horn the Bundesverdienstkreuz, which is a high achievement award.
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