David Blaine

David Blaine was born April 4, 1973 in Brooklyn New York. His father name is Puerto Rican and his mother was an American Jew.

He is an American illusionist and stunt performer. At age four he saw a magician perform in a subway; he then decided to purchase his first trick, The Pencil Through the Card.

Blaine began his career with street magic, performing card tricks, levitation, and illusions, such as bringing apparently dead flies back to life.

He later turned his attention to feats of endurance; these included being buried alive for seven days, spending 61 hours encased in ice, standing on a tiny platform at the top of a 100 foot high pole for 35 hours, and living in a transparent Perspex box for 44 days without food.

On 5th April 1999, Blaine spent seven days buried inside a glass coffin at the bottom of an open pit in front of an office building owned by Donald Trump in New York City where passersby could view him, 24 hours a day.

On 29th October, 2002, Random House published Mysterious Stranger : A Book of Magic by David Blaine. Part autobiography, part history of magic, and part armchair trasure hunt, the book also includes instructions on how to perform card tricks and illusions.