Harry Houdini is known as one of the greatest Magicians of all-time. He was very versatile seeing as how not only was he a great magician, but he was also an actor and film producer as well as other things.

On October 31, 1926, Escape artist and magician Harry Houdini died of a ruptured appendix. Even though many films depicted Houdini’s death being attributed to his act the Chinese Water Torture Cell in which he had to hold his breath for over three minutes, he truthfully never had a problem with the torture cell.

He toured all over Europe ranging from Scotland, Germany, France to England and many other countries.  He became a great hit and these tours provided him with a plethora of money that he spent on his family. Even though many of his magic tricks seemed complicated he did not take his tricks to the grave with him. He wrote books on how he managed to go through with many of his magic acts.