Births
- Joseph Arnold (Jerry Voltaire), Chicago gambling racketeer and bodyguard for James Allegretti
- Elmer Burke, New York hitman
- May 24 - Anthony Provenzano "Tony Pro", Genovese Crime Family Caporegime and New Jersey labor union racketeer
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)