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Harry Houdini History

Did you know these facts about Houdini?

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction!

Houdini was not born in the United States, but in Budapest, Hungary.

Houdini had five brothers and a sister, but had no children of his own.

Houdini (born Erich Weiss) took his stage name in honor of French magician Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, but later wrote the book The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin, an expose of the magician's methods.

Houdini was a movie producer and actor, a magician, an escape artist and an exposer of fraudulent mediums. He was also one of the first people to pilot an airplane in Australia.

Houdini became the most famous escape artist of all time, but he was not double-jointed, as is sometimes reported.

Houdini's house in NYC is still standing, and still sports the custom inlaid floor tiles with Houdini's HH initials.

Houdini did not die while performing the Water Torture Cell illusion, but died of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix (the same condition that killed Rudolph Valentino).

Houdini died in Grace Hospital in Detroit on Halloween, and is buried in his family's plot in New York.

Houdini is the invited guest at seances held every Halloween, the anniversary of his death.

Harry Houdini's brother, Hardeen, was a Leap Year Centennial baby- he was born on February 29, 1876.

Houdini is still today one of the ten most recognized celebrity names in the world.

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