Deaths
- Jacob Shapiro "Gurrah", New York mobster and labor racketeer
- 25 January - Al Capone "Scarface", Chicago Outfit leader
- May 9 - Nicholas DeJohn, San Francisco crime leader and Chicago Outfit member
- 20 June - Benjamin "Bugsy Siegel, New York mobster, Las Vegas casino manager, and member of the National Crime Syndicate
- September 20 - Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York
Read more about this topic: 1947 In Organized Crime
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)