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Salvatore Maranzano

1886 - 1931

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Salvatore Maranzano (Italian: [salvaˈtoːre maranˈtsaːno]; July 31, 1886 – September 10, 1931), nicknamed Little Caesar, was an Italian-American mobster from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later would become the Bonanno crime family in New York City. He instigated the Castellammarese War in 1930 to seize control of the American Mafia, winning the war after the murder of rival faction head Joe Masseria in April 1931. He then briefly became the Mafia's capo di tutti capi ("boss of all bosses") and formed the Five Families in New York City but was murdered on September 10, 1931, on the orders of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who established the Commission, in which families shared power to prevent future turf wars. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Salvatore Maranzano is the 39th most popular mafioso, the 2,290th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,258th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Mafioso.

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Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Salvatore Maranzano ranks 39 out of 70. Before him are Salvatore Giuliano, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Richard Hauptmann, Mickey Cohen, Murder of Kitty Genovese, and Vincent Gigante. After him are Du Yuesheng, Richard Kuklinski, Russell Bufalino, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Robert Hanssen, and Salomon Morel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Salvatore Maranzano ranks 109. Before him are Hans von Obstfelder, Sholem Schwarzbard, George Cœdès, Stefania Wilczyńska, Victor Boin, and Princess Patricia of Connaught. After him are Ernst Robert Curtius, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, Ferenc Münnich, Edward Weston, André Marty, and Delmira Agustini. Among people deceased in 1931, Salvatore Maranzano ranks 53. Before him are Charles Algernon Parsons, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, David Bruce, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Shibusawa Eiichi, and Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg. After him are Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme, Lujo Brentano, Felix Blumenfeld, Henri Mathias Berthelot, Louis Billot, and Alexandre Darracq.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Salvatore Maranzano ranks 2,290 out of 5,161. Before him are Alfredo Guzzoni (1877), Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis (1455), Quintus Veranius (12), Sikelgaita (1040), Mariangela Melato (1941), and Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain (1755). After him are Jacopo Amigoni (1682), Carl Ritter von Ghega (1802), Teodolfo Mertel (1806), Franco Basaglia (1924), Massimo Girotti (1918), and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1817).

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Among MAFIOSOS In Italy

Among mafiosos born in Italy, Salvatore Maranzano ranks 7. Before him are Lucky Luciano (1897), Salvatore Riina (1930), Bernardo Provenzano (1933), Vito Genovese (1897), Vito Cascio Ferro (1862), and Salvatore Giuliano (1922). After him are Russell Bufalino (1903), Giuseppe Morello (1867), Joe Profaci (1897), and Peggy Hettrick murder case (null).

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