MILITARY PERSONNEL

Melvin Purvis

1903 - 1960

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Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. All of this would later overshadow his military career which saw him directly involved with General George Patton, Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Melvin Purvis is the 1,424th most popular military personnel (up from 1,557th in 2019), the 4,942nd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,801st in 2019) and the 84th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Melvin Purvis ranks 1,424 out of 2,058. Before him are Josef Kammhuber, Mikhail Diterikhs, Eino Rahja, Mohammad Ali Jafari, Georgios Zoitakis, and Friedrich Kirchner. After him are Pavel Batov, Guido Starhemberg, Vladimir Kappel, Kurt Feldt, Sayf al-Din Khushqadam, and Valentin Varennikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Melvin Purvis ranks 173. Before him are Ivar Johansson, Louis Seigner, Felice Bonetto, Adolf Kainz, Ferenc Nagy, and Lili Kraus. After him are Fernando Paternoster, Joseph Cornell, Germán Busch, Orde Wingate, Cyril Jackson, and Diana Vreeland. Among people deceased in 1960, Melvin Purvis ranks 114. Before him are Pavel Peter Gojdič, Maud Menten, Eduard Pütsep, Yury Olesha, Joseph Vendryes, and Friedrich Kirchner. After him are Knud Enemark Jensen, Agnes Arber, Dmitry Gulia, Nima Yooshij, Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, and Toyohiko Kagawa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Melvin Purvis ranks 4,942 out of 20,380. Before him are Lana Wood (1946), Willie Dixon (1915), T-Bone Walker (1910), Ralph Rose (1885), Evelyn Nesbit (1884), and John Geiger (1873). After him are Teddy Wilson (1912), Layne Staley (1967), Geoff Pierson (1949), Benjamin Libet (1916), Carole Landis (1919), and James Marsden (1973).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Melvin Purvis ranks 84. Before him are Albert Sidney Johnston (1803), Theodore Van Kirk (1921), Holland Smith (1882), Naomi Parker Fraley (1921), Herman Kahn (1922), and Walter Short (1880). After him are Marc Mitscher (1887), Walter Bedell Smith (1895), Anthony McAuliffe (1898), Walton Walker (1889), Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888), and Courtney Hodges (1887).

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