Deaths
- Walter Stevens, Chicago gangster involved in labor slugging
- January 28 - Louis Cohen, government witness
- January 28 - Isadore Friedman, government witness
- January 29 - George Weinberg, government informant and former associate of Dutch Schultz
- April 28 - Abraham "Whitey" Friedman, Murder, Inc. victim
- May 10 - Tootsie Fienstein, associate of Louis Buchalter
- May 25 - Morris Diamond, New York Teamsters Union President
- September 6 - Irving Feinstein "Puggy", New York racketeer
Read more about this topic: 1939 In Organized Crime
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)