* 1944 – Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure ( b. 1896 ) ( executed )

* March 4 – In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing, along with Emanuel Weiss, and Louis Capone.

The garage had been rented by a man calling himself Frank Rogers, who gave his address as 1859 West North Avenue – which happened to be the address of the Circus Café, operated by Claude Maddox, a former St. Louis gangster with ties to the Capone organization, the Purple Gang, and a St. Louis gang called Egan's Rats.

Present at this meet were Goetz, Al Capone, Frank Nitti, Fred Burke, Gus Winkeler, Louis Campagna, Daniel Serritella, William Pacelli, and Bolton himself.

In the early 20th century it also featured casinos attracting celebrities like boxer Joe Louis, composer Irving Berlin and gangster Al Capone.

Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, Mendy Weiss, Louis Capone and Philip (" Little Farvel ") Cohen were indicted for the murder of candy-store owner Joe Rosen.

* Louis Capone – a member of Murder, Inc. who worked under Albert Anastasia and Louis Buchaltar.

Anastasia would send Cosa Nostra murder contracts to mobster Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, the boss of Murder, Inc. Capone would recruit the individual hitmen from the Reles and Maione gangs.

Smiling convicted killers Emanuel Weiss | Emanuel " Mendy " Weiss ( right ) and Louis Capone, surrounded by detectives, ride the New York Central railroad " up the river " to the Sing Sing prison death house on December 3, 1941, the day after receiving their sentences.

On March 4, 1944, Louis Capone was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.

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Also convicted and sentenced to death for the same crime were two of Buchalter's lieutenants who had participated in the planning and commission of the Rosen murder, Emanuel " Mendy " Weiss, and Louis Capone ( no relation to Al Capone ).

According to writers on organized crime, the Syndicate was born from an idea of Johnny " The Fox " Torrio and was founded or established at a May 1929 conference in Atlantic City, attended by leading underworld figures throughout the United States, including Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Dutch Schultz, Abner " Longy " Zwillman, Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, Vince Mangano, gambler Frank Erickson, Frank Scalice and Albert " Mad Hatter " Anastasia .< ref > Carl Sifakis, < cite > The Mafia Encyclopedia: second edition </ cite >, ( Checkmark Books )</ ref > Others describe the Atlantic City meeting as a coordination and strategy conference for bootleggers .< ref > Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau ,< cite > Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob </ cite > Paddington Press, 1979 </ ref >

* Louis Capone ( Worked under Albert Anastasia in the Murder Inc organisation )

Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris to Anne-Marie ' Toty ' Mucel ( 1912 – 1978 ) and Louis ' Pilou ' Bardot ( 1896 – 1975 ).

* 1896 – Louis Bromfield, American writer ( d. 1956 )

Louis Lumiere worked with Victor Planchon to adapt the Lumiere " Blue Label " ( Etiquette Bleue ) photographic plate emulsion for use on celluloid roll film, which began in early 1896.

* 1818 – Louis Gerhard De Geer, Swedish politician and writer, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden ( d. 1896 )

When Laurier led the Liberals to victory in the 1896 election, 14-year-old Louis relayed the election returns from the telephone in his father's store.

* 1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $ 2. 9 billion in damage ( 1997 USD ).

He was portrayed by Louis Jourdan in the 1984 NBC miniseries, The First Olympics: Athens 1896.

:::— Louis Sullivan's The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered ( 1896 )

* March 18 – Louis Bromfield, American writer ( b. 1896 )

The stories surrounding the events and personalities of these Games were chronicled in the 1984 NBC miniseries, The First Olympics: Athens 1896 starring David Ogden Stiers as William Milligan Sloane and Louis Jourdan as Pierre de Coubertin.

The exploits of Louis, Garrett, Connolly, and Flack would be chronicled in the 1984 NBC miniseries, The First Olympics: Athens, 1896.

* Louis Wharton ( 1896 – 1957 ), West Indian-born English cricketer

Edmond de Goncourt ( May 26, 1822 – July 16, 1896 ), born Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt, was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

* On 18 April 2012, the silver cup given to the marathon winner, Greek athlete Spyridon Louis, at the first modern Olympic Games staged in Athens in 1896 sold for UK £ 541, 250 ( US $ 860, 000 ), breaking the auction record for Olympic memorabilia.

Louis Jules Trochu (; 12 March 1815 – 7 October 1896 ) was a French military leader and politician.

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier ( 6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896 ) was a French-born British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and also for his novel Trilby.

Baron Louis Gerhard De Geer of Finspång ( 18 July 181824 September 1896 ) was a Swedish statesman and writer.

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Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau ( September 23, 1819 – September 18, 1896 ) was a French physicist.

* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.

* 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason ( d. 1759 )

* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )

* 1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.

* 1664 – Fran &# 231 ; ois Louis, Prince of Conti, French general ( d. 1709 )

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

* 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France ( d. 1710 )

* 1962 – Louis Lipps, American football player

* 1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

* 1717 – Louis François, Prince of Conti ( d. 1776 )

* 1764 – Louis Baraguey d ' Hilliers, French general ( d. 1816 )

* 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer ( d. 1997 )

* 881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.

* 1899 – Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver ( d. 1979 )

In the Battle of Abensberg on 19 – 20 April 1809, Napoleon gained a significant victory over the Austrians under Archduke Louis of Austria and General Johann von Hiller.

* 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer ( d. 1842 )

* 1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist ( d. 1972 )

* 1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer

* 778 – Louis the Pious ( d. 840 )

* 1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.

* 1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

* 1682 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy ( d. 1712 )

* 1624 – The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.

* 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift " free to the world ".

* 1743 – Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France ( d. 1793 )