The Punch That Killed Houdini Houdini bragged he could take any punch. A student took him at his word. On October 22, 1926, J. Gordon Whitehead struck him. Houdini was reclining, unprepared. His appendix likely ruptured. He performed two more shows in pain. He died on Halloween. He was 52.
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