Mickey Cohen

I want to be clear that I find nothing glamorous about Mickey Cohen's crimes, but I do find his arc historically fascinating. A Brooklyn-born boxer who punched his way up and ended as the boss of a Los Angeles crime family, he embodies the distortions of mid-century America, where ambition and violence could blur into one career. His sixty-two years, from 1913 to 1976, read like the noir films his era inspired. A reference site should not only catalogue the beloved and the photogenic; documenting figures like Cohen, soberly and without romance, is part of keeping the record honest.

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Name (English)

Mickey Cohen

Name (Japanese)

ミッキー・コーエン

Reading

みっきー・こーえん

Born

September 4, 1913 – July 29, 1976

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Height

165 cm

Occupation

boxer / criminal

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%20Cohen
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1371363

Tags

• New York
• boxer
• criminal

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.