He’s the most famous magician to ever live, but few realize that Harry Houdini (1874–1926) began life as Ehrich Weiss, a rabbi’s son from Budapest. After moving to America as a young child, he was ...

Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini the day he performed his famous stunt in which he was submerged in the East River in a crate and escaped in just under a minute on July 7th 1912 in New York ...

APPLETON (WLUK) -- This week, Appleton is celebrating a local legend. Escape artist, illusionist and magician, Harry Houdini, would have turned 150 years old on Sunday. And although Houdini was ...

(CBS DETROIT) - On Oct. 31, 1926, Harry Houdini, who is considered to be one of the greatest magicians of all time, died in Detroit. Houdini was in Detroit for a performance at the Garrick Theater on ...

Escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 at age 52 Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Harry Houdini made a career out of defying death — and yet it wasn't his thrilling escapes from water-filled vessels or skyscraper ledges that caused his untimely demise. According to the Yale ...