Alphonse Capone was born in New York City by two parents Gabriel and Teresa Capone. Capone's parents immigrated to the United States in 1893 from Naples, Italy. Capone came from a large family and was the fourth oldest of nine children. (Kobler 10). As a child, Capone was very wise when it came to living on the streets of New York. He had a clever mind when it came to street smarts. As far as school goes, Capone was a near-illiterate. He came from a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn, so education was not a top priority. At about the age of eleven Capone became a member of a juvenile gang in his neighborhood. While this was taking place, around the year 1900, about eleven percent of all the foreign born population in the United States were Italian. Capone was forced to either deal with a miserable low wage job with a hopeless future or make an improvement for himself by committing first minor, then serious crimes. Al Capone's philosophy was that laws only applied to people who had enough money to live by them

Chicago gangster & murderer. He grew up in the slums of Brooklyn & received the nickname "Scarface" as the result of a knife wound (3 scars on the left side of his face) inflicted by Frank Galluccio, a tough hood, in a quarrel about a girl at a Brooklyn bar in 1917. In 1920, Capone moved to Chicago to work for Johnny Torrio, a syndicate chief. The Torrio-Capone gang engaged in war with other mobs, killing rival leaders, such as Charles Dion O'Bannion in 1924. Capone soon took control from Torrio & organized the syndicate with a plan to make crime in Chicago and throughout the United States run like a business monopoly. He established a $110-million-a-year empire out of bootleg liquor, gambling, prostitution & labor rackets. Through violence, using sawed-off shotguns & machine guns, Capone became king of the Chicago underworld, "The Master Criminal." His henchmen machine-gunned to death seven members of the Moran gang on February 14, 1929, in what became known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The Chicago police tried many times to shut down Capone's numerous speakeasies & breweries, but failed; too many of Capone's interests were tied to legitimate business and too many politicians & officials were indebted to Capone for their jobs. 

In 1931, he was found guilty of income tax evasion & sentenced to 11 years imprisonment. 

Capone started his sentence in an Atlanta prison. In 1934 he was transferred to Alcatraz. Five years later he was released from Alcatraz as a helpless paretic, due to the untreated syphilis he contracted in his early whorehouse days. Later that year, Al Capone was judged insane and was released to the care of his family. During this same period of time, gunmen in Chicago sought out Edward J. O'Hare and shot him to death in his car. 

In January 1947 Capone had a massive brain hemorrhage and died. His body was removed from his estate in Florida and transferred back to the seen of his underworld triumph - Chicago. "Immediately upon arrival in Chicago by train, the corpse of the dead crime czar was met by armed guards who escorted it to Mt. Olivet Cemetery.  The family held a private ceremony at the cemetery, but were wary of grave robbers taking the corpse so they reburied Alphonse Capone in a secret plot in Mt. Carmel Cemetery. 

 D O B January 25, 1947.