Bugsy Siegel

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was an American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. Siegel was influential within the Jewish Mob, along with his childhood friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, and he also held significant influence within the Italian-American Mafia and the largely Italian-Jewish National Crime Syndicate. Described as handsome and charismatic, he became one of the first front-page celebrity gangsters.

28 February 1906

Born on the same birth day (28 February): Ainsley Harriott • Aroldis Chapman • Brian Bannister • Bubba Smith • Cornelius Gemma • Dino Zoff • Gilbert Gottfried • Jost Bürgi • Lucas Boyé • Mariano Zabaleta • Michel de Montaigne • Pierre Fatou • Robert Sean Leonard • Ronalds Ķēniņš • Stephen Spender • Vincente Minnelli

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