Harry Houdini’s Death – Cause and Date

The magician Harry Houdini died at the age of 52. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Iconic magician and escape artist whose most difficult stunt entailed escaping from handcuffs that took a locksmith five years to build.

His parents were German Jews named Cecelia Weisz Steiner and Mayer Samuel Weisz. He was married to Bess Houdini from 1894 until his death in 1926.

Quotes

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Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

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I have made compacts with fourteen different persons that whichever of us died first would communicate with the other if it were possible, but I have never received a word.

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It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

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I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

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But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.