Eliot Ness

Eliot Ness was an American Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone while enforcing Prohibition in Chicago. He was leader of a team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables, handpicked for their incorruptibility. The release of his memoir The Untouchables, months after his death, launched several screen portrayals establishing a posthumous fame for Ness as an incorruptible crime fighter.

19 April 1903

Born on the same birth day (19 April): Azlan Shah of Perak • Clay Shaw (politician) • Dudley Moore • Fernando Botero • Hemmo Kallio • Henry Jameson • James Heckman • James Nares (composer) • José Echegaray • Julius Krohn • Jóannes Eidesgaard • Leon Henkin • Lise Klaveness • Louis Amédée Achard • Peter de Noronha • Samuel C. Morrison Jr. • Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet • Veniamin Kaverin

Born in the same month (April 1903): Andrey Kolmogorov • Edwin T. Layton • Gregor Piatigorsky • Guy Simonds • Henry Corbin • John Williams (actor) • José Antonio Primo de Rivera • Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay • Lionel Chevrier • Luis Saslavsky • M. Balasundaram • Marion Aye • Mickey Cochrane • Misuzu Kaneko • Morgan Taylor • Nicolas Nabokov • Patroklos Karantinos • Ruth Svedberg • Ward Bond