Events
Arts and literature
Births
*
Gaetano Reina
Gaetano Reina (; September 27, 1889 – February 26, 1930) was an Italian-American gangster. He was an early American Mafia boss who was the founder of what has for many years been called the Lucchese crime family in New York City. He led the fam ...
,
Joe Masseria Capo
*
Louis Pioggi
Louis "Louie the Lump" Pioggi (April 24, 1889 – May 15, 1969) was a New York criminal and member of the Five Points Gang, known most prominently for the murder of Eastman Gang leader Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach and Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis. He a ...
, "Louie the Lump",
Five Points Gang member
*January 27 –
Frank Nitti
Frank Ralph Nitto (born Francesco Raffaele Nitto, ; January 27, 1886 – March 19, 1943), known as Frank Nitti, was an Italian-American organized crime figure based in Chicago. The first cousin and bodyguard of Al Capone, Nitti was in charge of ...
,
Chicago Outfit mobster, in Augori, Sicily
[Schoenberg, page 245]
Deaths
References
Schoenberg, Robert. ''Mr. Capone''. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
{{DEFAULTSORT:1889 In Organized Crime
Years in organized crime
Organized crime