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• Abrahamyan, Khoren    b. April 1, 1930  d. December 9, 2004
  Actor, Motion Picture Director.
  Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
   
• Armenian Genocide Memorial 
  Memorial commemorating the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923, instigated by the “Young Turks” government of the Ottoman Empire shortly after Turkey joined the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary) in World War I. The Muslim Turks feared that the Orthodox Christian Armenians would rise up against the Empire and act as a fifth column in conjunction with Russian armies operating on Turkey’s eastern border. The Genocide, also called the Armenian Massacre, began on April 24th, 1915, with mass...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul F. Wilson)
  Tsitsernakaberd Hill, Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
   
• Khachaturian, Aram Ilich   b. June 6, 1903  d. May 1, 1978
  Composer. He was educated at the Gnesin School and the Moscow Conservatory. Together with Prokofiev and Shostakovich he was one of the most popular and successful composers of the Soviet period. His unique musical idiom was marked by his Armenian heritage. His scores are noted for their sensuous, singing melodic writing, colorful orchestration, and elemental rhythmic drive. Known in the West chiefly as the composer of instrumental concerti and the vivid scores for the ballets Gayaneh and...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
  Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
   
• Manoogian, Alex   b. 1901  d. July 10, 1996
  Inventor, Philanthropist. He perfected the design of the single-handed faucet in 1954.
  Etchmiadzin Cathedral, Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
   
• Margaryan, Andranik    b. June 12, 1951  d. March 25, 2007
  Prime Minister of Armenia. He began his political involvement in the 1960s when he joined the National Unity Party, a dissident organization that advocated for Armenia's secession from the Soviet Union. In 1972 he graduated from Yerevan Polytechnic Institute as a computer engineer. Margaryan worked as a scientist for various private companies, research institutes and government offices. He was arrested in 1974, convicted of espousing subversive ideas, and sentenced to two years in Soviet labor...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
  Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
   
• Sarian, Martiros    b. February 28, 1880  d. May 5, 1972
  Painter. Martiros Saryan was born to an Armenian family in Nor Nakhijevan (now part of Rostov-on-Don, Russian). At the turn of the 20th century he studied at the Moscow School of Arts and was heavily influenced by the work of artists such as Gauguin and Matisse. He traveled extensively through the Middle East starting in 1910 and in 1915 went to Etchmiadzin, Armenia to help refugees of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. He married his wife Lusik Agayan lived in Russia for a few years following the...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul S.)
  Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
   
• Saroyan, William    b. August 31, 1908  d. May 18, 1981
  Author. Born in Fresno, California, he was the fourth child of Armenian immigrants from Bitlis. His father was a preacher and poet who died when Saroyan was 3. The next year young William was placed in an orphanage with his siblings because their mother was unable to provide for them; he remained there five years before being reunited with his mother. A high school drop out at 15, he educated himself at the Fresno Public Library. At the age of eighteen he left home and after a difficult...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul S.)
  Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
  Plot: * Half of cremated remains
   
• Wegner, Armin Theophilus    b. October 16, 1886  d. May 17, 1978
  German Poet, probably best remembered for his photographs and witness to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 while he was a German Army medic attached to the Ottoman Empire forces. Born in Elberfeld, Rhineland, Germany, his aristocratic family could trace its lineage back to the time of the Crusades. He received a law degree, then spent some time finding himself, being, as he himself put it a “farmer, dock-worker, student of drama [with famed director Max Reinhardt], private tutor, editor, public...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul F. Wilson)
  Tsitsernakaberd Hill, Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
  Plot: Armenian Genocide Memorial
   

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