Deaths
- Frank Christian, St. Louis gangster
- Anthony Dattalo, Green Ones member
- Paul Kelly (Paolo Antonini Vaccarelli), Five Points Gang leader
- Pasquale Tolizotte, Chicago bootlegger affiliated with the Southside O'Donnell's
- John Tuccello, Sheldon Gang member
- January 19 - Henry Spingola, brother-in-law to the Genna Brothers
- January 22 - James Patrick O'Leary, Chicago gambling racketeer
- January 30 - Ohmer Hockett and John H. Balke
- February 15 - Urazio Tropea "The Scourge", associate of the Genna Brothers
- February 23 - Edward Baldelli, Genna Brothers member
- February 24 - Vito Bascone, Chicago bootlegger and Genna Brothers ally
- March 28 - John Kelly, New York gambling leader
- June 27 - Harvey J. Dunn, St. Louis bootlegger
- July 15 - James Russo (gangster), Chicago (Little Italy) bootlegger
- August 21 - Joseph Schamora, St. Louis gangster
- September 5 - Peter Webbe, Cuckoos Gang member
- September 22 - Joseph Corsiglio, Cuckoos Gang associate
- October 11 - Patrick Murray, Hymie Weiss bodyguard
- October 11 - Hymie Weiss, North Side Gang leader
- October 15 - Kustandy Ajilonny, (also Ajlouny, Ajlouni) Green Ones associate
- December 30 - Hillary Clements, Sheldon Gang member
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“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.”
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