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): Anna Lee Aldred • Antonio Carluccio • Cemal Tollu • Germaine Tailleferre • Henry Jameson • Joe Hart • Margo MacDonald • Michel Roux • Ragnar Ulstein • Samuel C. Morrison Jr. • Sven Hassel • Walter Stewart (journalist)

Born in the same month (April 1903): Doc Edgerton • Edwin T. Layton • Guy Simonds • Henry Corbin • John Williams (actor) • Lionel Chevrier • Nicolas Nabokov • Ward Bond