Ask 10 magic fans to name their all-time Top 10 list of sorcerers, and you’ll get 10 different answers. But every list will begin with Harry Houdini, who wowed the world with his great escapes in the early 1900s.

Houdini has escaped from chains, vaults, and handcuffs. Performing primarily on the Vaudeville circuit, he also developed a stage presence that elevated magic shows’ believability and acceptance.

Among his many great escapes, the Chinese Water Torture Cell is probably his best known. Houdini was hoisted into a glass tank full of water by his ankles A curtain covered the tank to conceal the magician’s machinations. Houdini emerged with thunderous applause when he came out.

Since Houdini, David Blaine made his debut in the ’90s. Blaine is best known for tricks of endurance, such as being underground in a plastic box for seven days. A team of construction workers had to dig him out of his potential tomb. Houdini wanted to do a similar stunt but passed away before he could complete it.

David Copperfield is credited with being the most commercially successful magician in history. Copperfield had 20 television special in the course of 20 years, and in one of them made the Statue of Liberty vanish!

In the 1930s, the elegant Harry Blackstone Sr. followed Houdini as the best-known magician in America. One of his claims to fame was sawing a woman in half on stage with an enormous electric circular saw, accompanied by sounds of a blade ripping through wood.

Doug Henning’s charm made him a family attraction. He also had a saw trick where one would dress in pink, one would dress in blue. Both were sawn in half. When they emerged, one had a pink top and a blue bottom, and the other was the opposite.

Criss Angel, who goes by Mindfreak is a modern phenomenon who attracts an audience worldwide. Mindfreak has done stunts such as walking on water, getting run over by a steamroller, and levitated.

Siegfried and Roy drew crowds to their show at the Las Vegas Mirage for 30 years until Montecore, one of the white tigers used in their performances, critically injured Roy before a stunned audience in 2003. From locked enclosures, the tiger and Siegfried switched places.

With a Saturday morning show in 1960, Mark Wilson was the pioneer of TV magic. He did mostly card and coin tricks.

Lance Burton is another Vegas act. He escaped from a roller coaster going 80 MPH. It appeared he missed being hit by a 10th of a second.

Richiardi did most of his work in NYC, but appeared 24 times of the Ed Sullivan show. What set him apart was using fake blood and sound effects to make his illusions more dramatic. Those who saw his live shows said they would never forget them.

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