Deaths
- Emmanuel Weiss, a syndicate hitman and member of the Luciano crime family
- Benjamin Zuckerman "Zookie the Bookie", Chicago syndicate mobster involved in illegal gambling
- March 4 - Louis Buchalter, Murder, Inc. leader
- March 4 - Louis Capone, Murder, Inc. hitman
- March 4 - Emanuel Weiss, Murder, Inc. hitman
- April 22 - Frank Abatte, Illinois mobster
- July 25 - Corrado Giacona, New Orleans crime family leader
- November 28 - Frank Todaro, New Orleans crime family leader
Read more about this topic: 1944 In Organized Crime
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)