Brothers
The brothers were:
| Stage name | Actual name | Born | Died | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chico | Leonard | March 22, 1887 | October 11, 1961 | 74 |
| Harpo | Adolph (after 1911: Arthur) | November 23, 1888 | September 28, 1964 | 75 |
| Groucho | Julius Henry | October 2, 1890 | August 19, 1977 | 86 |
| Gummo | Milton | October 23, 1892 | April 21, 1977 | 84 |
| Zeppo | Herbert Manfred | February 25, 1901 | November 30, 1979 | 78 |
A sixth brother, Manfred ("Mannie"), was actually the first child of Samuel and Minnie, born in 1886, though an online family tree states that he was born in 1885: "Family lore told privately of the firstborn son, Manny, born in 1886 but surviving for only three months, and carried off by tuberculosis. Even some members of the Marx family wondered if he was pure myth. But Manfred can be verified. A death certificate of the Borough of Manhattan reveals that he died, aged seven months, on 17 July 1886, of 'entero-colitis,' with 'asthenia' contributing, i.e. probably a victim of influenza. He is buried at New York's Washington Cemetery, beside his grandmother, Fanny Sophie Schönberg (née Salomons), who died on 10 April 1901."
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Famous quotes containing the word brothers:
“To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night—brothers who see now they are truly brothers.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not send men to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn’t marry the right person.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)