In January 1947 one of America's most famous gangsters, Al Capone, died from a heart attack at home in his bed. He’d ruled the streets of Chicago for years during the era of Prohibition. Deirdre ...

The “full name of deceased” was Alphonse Capone, better known as Big Al, or Scarface Al. One of the most notorious crime bosses of the 1920s and ’30s, Capone died on this day 70 years ago. In a sense ...