MILITARY PERSONNEL

Monte Melkonian

1957 - 1993

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Monte Melkonian (Armenian: Մոնթէ Մելքոնեան; 25 November 1957 – 12 June 1993) was an Armenian-American revolutionary and left-wing nationalist militant. He was a commander in the Artsakh Defence Army and was killed while fighting against Azerbaijan in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Born in California, Melkonian left the United States and arrived in Iran as a teacher in 1978, amidst the Iranian Revolution. He took part in demonstrations against Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and subsequently travelled to Lebanon to serve with a Beirut-based Armenian militia fighting in the Lebanese Civil War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Monte Melkonian is the 1,194th most popular military personnel (down from 917th in 2019), the 4,044th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,654th in 2019) and the 69th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Monte Melkonian ranks 1,194 out of 2,058. Before him are Ivan Tyulenev, Kit Carson, Jure Francetić, Hans Joachim von Zieten, Pavel Grachev, and Mehmed IV Giray. After him are Ōtomo no Otomaro, Samad bey Mehmandarov, Nikolai Nebogatov, Máximo Gómez, Alexander Matrosov, and David Stirling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Monte Melkonian ranks 132. Before him are Shane MacGowan, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Nellie Kim, Steve Harvey, Patrick Battiston, and Bret Hart. After him are Dan Castellaneta, María Conchita Alonso, Robert Sapolsky, Nery Pumpido, Zhao Leji, and Mark Gordon. Among people deceased in 1993, Monte Melkonian ranks 107. Before him are Leo Löwenthal, Józef Czapski, Ugo Locatelli, Wolfgang Lotz, Shovkat Alakbarova, and Sun Ra. After him are William L. Shirer, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, John Tuzo Wilson, Richard Jordan, Guido Masetti, and Stanley Myers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Monte Melkonian ranks 4,044 out of 20,380. Before him are Elizabeth Warren (1949), Delmer Daves (1904), Jean Acker (1893), Carey Lowell (1961), Donn F. Eisele (1930), and Sue Lyon (1946). After him are Joseph B. Foraker (1846), Whitfield Diffie (1944), John Powell (1947), Lawrence Eagleburger (1930), Gene Deitch (1924), and Jesse Ventura (1951).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Monte Melkonian ranks 69. Before him are John O'Connor (1920), Thomas Nelson Jr. (1738), Wesley Clark (1944), Chelsea Manning (1987), Carl Brashear (1931), and Kit Carson (1809). After him are John Basilone (1916), Lucius D. Clay (1898), George Dewey (1837), David Petraeus (1952), John C. Woods (1911), and Charles Robert Jenkins (1940).

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