The famed escapologist had a reputation for death-defying stunts. But his rise to fame and sudden death both came with some ...

Prints & Photographs Division, Arnold Genthe Collection, LC-G3999-0049-A (b&w glass neg.), Library of Congress Jack London and Harry Houdini were two of the most remarkable Americans of the early ...

Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. At age nine, Ehrich and some neighborhood friends establish a five-cent circus.