Deaths
- Paddy "the Bear" Ryan, Valley Gang leader
- February 2 - Maurice Enright, Chicago labor racketeer
- May 11 - Jim Colosimo "Big Jim", Chicago prostitution and gambling racketeer
- October 2 - Giovanni "John" Vitale, Detroit mafia leader
- December 26 - Monk Eastman (Edward Osterman), Eastman Gang founder
Read more about this topic: 1920 In Organized Crime
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)