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:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“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)