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): Alan Price • Ara Gevorgyan • Bobby Russell • Dudley Moore • Françoise Rosay • Frederick of Naples • Getúlio Vargas • Hugh O'Brian • José Echegaray • Kelly Holmes • Mary Louise Booth • Ole Evinrude • Sarah Bagley • Simon Cowell (conservationist) • Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet

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