* March 15 – Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and the PBS opera series Live from the Met both make their American television debuts.

Luciano Pavarotti's stardom is reckoned from a performance alongside Joan Sutherland at the Met, when he " leapt over the " Becher's Brook " of the string of high Cs with an aplomb that left everyone gasping.

As a representative for his associates Meyer Lansky and Charlie Luciano, Siegel is in California to muscle control of betting parlors away from Los Angeles gangster Jack Dragna.

A local post office that operated from 1879 to 1919 was named for Luciano Bulverdo, an early area landowner.

Unlike other street gangs whose business was petty crime, Luciano offered protection to Jewish youngsters from Italian and Irish gangs for ten cents per week.

From 1916 to 1936, Luciano was arrested 25 times on charges ranging from assault, illegal gambling, and robbery, but spent no time in prison.

Rothstein immediately saw the potential windfall from Prohibition and educated Luciano on running bootleg alcohol as a business Luciano, Costello, and Genovese started their own bootlegging operation with financing from Rothstein.

Luciano wanted to use lessons he learned from Rothstein to turn their gang activities into criminal empires.

Three of these prostitutes implicated Luciano as the ringleader, who made collections, although David Betillo was in charge of the prostitution ring in New York, and any money that Luciano received was from Betillo.

On April 1, 1936, Luciano was arrested in Hot Springs on a criminal warrant from New York.

Luciano continued to run the Luciano crime family from prison, relaying his orders through acting boss, Vito Genovese.

Luciano was first imprisoned at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York, but was moved later in 1936 to Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, far away from New York City.

Luciano used his influence to help get the materials to build a church at the prison, which became famous for being one of the only freestanding churches in the New York State correctional system and also for the fact that on the church's altar are two of the original doors from the Victoria, the ship of Ferdinand Magellan.

To facilitate negotiations, the State of New York transferred Luciano from Clinton prison to Great Meadow Correctional Facility, which was much closer to New York City.

Another source states that Luciano allegedly said in later years that his contribution to the war effort had been a sham, designed purely to obtain his release from prison.

On February 2, 1946, two federal immigration agents transported Luciano from Sing Sing prison to Ellis Island in New York Harbor for deportation proceedings.

Luciano first took a freighter from Naples to Caracas, Venezuela, then flew to Rio De Janeiro.

When Luciano arrived in Genoa from Cuba on April 11, 1947, he was arrested and sent to a jail in Palermo.

On May 11, a regional commission in Palermo warned Luciano to stay out of trouble and released him from jail.

This deal would secure the release of Luciano from prison ; in exchange, the Italian Mafia would provide security for the war ships that were being built along the docks in New York Harbor.

It was founded in 1930 by Luciano Castillo Colonna, through a split in the Peruvian Communist Party.

* 1977 – Luciano Zavagno, Argentine footballer

* 1975 – Luciano Almeida, Brazilian footballer

Dewey led a successful investigation into Luciano's lucrative prostitution operation, eventually sending Luciano to jail with a 30 – 50 year sentence.

* 1977 – Luciano Andrade Rissutt, Brazilian footballer

* 2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( b. 1925 )

* 1897 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster ( d. 1962 )

* 1931 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist ( d. 2006 )

* 1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1910 – Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian harpsichordist and composer ( d. 1994 )

* 1990 – Luciano Narsingh, Dutch footballer

* June 28 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire and writer ( d. 1995 )

* November 24 – Lucky Luciano, Sicilian-American Mafia boss ( d. 1962 )

* January 26 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster ( b. 1897 )

* October 12 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor ( d. 2007 )

* Don Carlo with Luciano Pavarotti and Daniela Dessi ( live La Scala – stage director )

Famous Modenesi include Mary of Modena, the Queen consort of England and Scotland ; operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti ( 1935 – 2007 ) and soprano Mirella Freni, born in Modena itself ; Enzo Ferrari ( 1898 – 1988 ), eponymous founder of the Ferrari motor company ; the Catholic Priest and Senior Exorcist of Vatican Gabriele Amorth ; and the rock singer Vasco Rossi who was born in Zocca, one of the 47 comuni in the Province of Modena.

Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Français, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano ( 21 May 1775 – 29 June 1840 ), born Luciano Buonaparte, was the third surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and his wife Letizia Ramolino.

Luciano Rivera ( 1930 – 1988 ), was a local mechanic injured in the Prinair accident in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, when the plane fell over an area where he and his friends were playing cards.

Father Jaime Luciano Balmes y Urpiá () ( August 28, 1810 – July 9, 1848 ), Catalan Spanish Catholic priest, eminent as a political writer and a philosopher.

Charles " Lucky " Luciano ( pronounced ; born Salvatore Lucania November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962 ), was an Italian-born, naturalized American mobster born in Sicily.

Rothstein told Luciano to buy 200 expensive seats to the Jack Dempsey – Luis Firpo boxing match in the Bronx and distribute them to top gangsters and politicians.

* The Valachi Papers ( 1972 ) – Luciano was portrayed by Angelo Infanti

* Lucky Luciano ( 1973 ) – Luciano was portrayed by Gian Maria Volonté