Big Jim Colosimo

Vincenzo Colosimo, known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal empire in Chicago based on prostitution, gambling and racketeering. He gained power through petty crime and heading a chain of brothels. From 1902 until his death in 1920, he led a gang known after his death as the Chicago Outfit. Colosimo was assassinated on May 11, 1920, and no one was ever charged with his murder. Johnny Torrio, an enforcer whom Colosimo imported in 1909 from New York, seized control of Colosimo's businesses after his death. Al Capone, a close associate of Torrio, has been accused of involvement in Colosimo's murder but was not yet in Chicago at the time.

16 February 1878

Born on the same birth date (16 February 1878): Pamela Colman Smith

Born on the same birth day (16 February): Adolfo Azcuna • Cathy Freeman • Denílson (footballer, born 1988) • Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg • George Kennan (explorer) • Giambattista Bodoni • Hans F. K. Günther • Hugo de Vries • Iain Banks • Jean Behra • Kanō Eitoku • Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold • Katharine Cornell • Keith Gretzky • Kelly Tripucka • LeVar Burton • Naomi Nishida • Nichiren • Octave Mirbeau • Otis Blackwell • Samuel Willenberg • Simon Francis (footballer) • Zoran Čampara

Born in the same month (February 1878): Alfréd Hajós • Alvan T. Fuller • André Citroën • Gordon Coates • Grigory Petrovsky • Jack Kirwan • Kazimir Malevich • Martin Buber • Mirra Alfassa • Ossip Gabrilowitsch • Pamela Colman Smith • Pierre Fatou