Harry Houdini

No he didn't, his family was to poor.

Name :Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss).Date of Birth: March 24 1874 Date of death: October 31, 1926

Reason of Death: his appendix burst open and he never went to the hospital, and died as the result of gangreen; not the common belief that he drowned trying to perform the Chinese Water Torture Cell.

Houdini was born in Budapest, Hungary; and came from a Jewish family. His family immigrated to the United States in 1878, when Harry (Ehrich) was four years old. They first lived in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Accomplishments: Houdini is credited for inventing many different illusions, including :

Metamorphosis, Strait Jacket escape, Chinese Water Torture Cell, and Milk Can Escape.

In 1910 he bought a Bi-Plane and flew it in Astrualia.

In 1919 he became a producer/actor/stunt-man and performed in : The Grim Game, Terror Island, The Master Myster, The Man from Beyond, and Haldane of the Secret Service.

Herman Houdini 1863-1885

Nathan Houdini 1870-1927

William Houdini 1872-1925

Harry Houdini 1874-1926

Theodore Houdini 1876-1945

Leopold Houdini 1879-1962

Those were his brothers.

Carrie Houdini 1882-Unknown

She was his sister.

he infleuance all great magicians today to take it to the next level!

Houdini had little formal education, but his self-education was a lifelong pursuit. "My mind," he is often quoted as saying, "is the key that sets me free."

No because he was killed because of a accident

^^^^^ this guy has bad grammer and huidini got hit in the stomach by a canadian student trying to see if huidini can "take a punch" before huidini could tigh his stomach the student hit huidini in the gut several times...

Martin Beck was probably Houdini's biggest supporter and inspiration. Beck saw Houdini perform and was impressed. He was the first person to book him in big theaters and is the reason Houdini became so famous.

Is the following speculative scenario possible?

For over a decade, Houdini publicly exposed fraudulent spirit mediums who, in turn, finally decided to strike back at him in order to protect their business. They hired Whitehead to rough him up in order to get Houdini to leave them alone.

They did not intend to kill him yet the punches resulted in appendicitis. The appendicitis became acute and his appendix later burst, flooding Houdini's abdominal cavity with lethal streptococcus germs. The next day the ruptured appendix was removed but the poison was too much to overcome and Harry died six days later.

While I think that there is a reasonable chance that this is close to what actually happened, it is not provable by what is known at this time.

But the story may still interest you so let's look into it further.

Harry Houdini, the world famous escape artist and magician, died in 1926 at the age of 52 after suffering from complications of appendicitis nine days after four very severe blows to the stomach. He claimed he could take punches from anyone, yet this time, he was caught off guard and was not able to firm up his muscles.

While many people claim that trauma to the abdomen has never been known to cause appendicitis, here is what his attending physician, Dr. Kennedy, said: "It is the only case of traumatic appendicitis I had ever seen in my lifetime, but the logic of the thing seems to indicate that Mr. Houdini died of appendicitis, the direct result of the injury."

With this in mind, it is interesting to note that since the death was attributed to the blows, Mrs. Houdini received a $50,000 insurance payout rather than the $25,000 that the appendicitis on its own would have yielded. The insurance company looked closely into the matter and accepted the expert testimony of the attending physicians. No matter the cause of the appendicitis, if Houdini had received timely medical attention, his appendix could have been removed before it burst and he might have lived.

But is there more to the story?

I think that the punches were possibly an intentional assault and the resulting death was an accident. Whitehead, the young man who delivered the blows, might have been acting on his own or, perhaps, doing a job for a sinister group of fake mediums.

Magical, I assume.

Harry Secombe was born on September 8, 1921.

Harry Houdini was a famous magician who was known for his trick of being chained underwater in a closed container, called the water torture cell. He was also famous for other things such as jumping off bridges while handcuffed, and even getting out of a strait jacket while hanging upside down from a multiple story building. He died not because of drowning during one of his tricks (which is a common theory), but because of a different performance. He had fractured his ankle, and was unable to perform his fanatical escapes, so he put on a normal magician show. He was showing a muscle trick and asked a college student to punch him in the stomach. What he didn't know was that he had appendicitis, and when the student punched him, his appendix exploded, killing him within days of his performance.

Harry Markowitz was born on August 24, 1927.

houdini

No

He had a hidden key under the hand cuff!

NO!NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO This what happen. Harry Houdini hit certain places of the handcuffs on his kneecap and that is what he did to escape them in 7 seconds or less I recommend that you watch the movie "The Great Houdini"

Harry Hillman was born on September 8, 1881.

in America

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Houdini's escape from a water tank, often referred to as the "Water Torture Cell," involved him being handcuffed and submerged in a locked glass tank filled with water. He would use his exceptional skills in escapology, including the ability to hold his breath for extended periods and his knowledge of locks and restraints, to free himself. Often, he would create a distraction or employ clever misdirection to ensure the audience was captivated while he executed the escape. Ultimately, he would emerge from the tank, surprising onlookers with his remarkable feat.

Weiss became a professional magician and began calling himself "Harry Houdini" because he was heavily influenced by the French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin,

He lived there from 1887 to 1900

Harry Houdini was only married once, to a Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Rahner

They married July 22, 1894. Until Death do they part. October 31, 1926, Harry Houdini was pronounced dead after an operation. Death by Pertonitis caused by Apendicitis.