16
Jan
Birth of Manya Ghazaryan (January 20, 1924)
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Manya Ghazaryan, a prolific art historian, was born on January 20, 1924, in Tbilisi (Georgia). She g...
This Week in Armenian History
09
Jan
Birth of Hrach Zartarian (January 15, 1897)
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Hrach Zartarian was one of the important yet lesser-known names of French Armenian literature in the...
02
Jan
Birth of Charles Dowsett (January 2, 1924)
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Charles Dowsett was the first person to hold a position in Armenian studies at a British university....
26
Dec
Death of Osip Mandelstam (December 27, 1938)
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Osip Mandelstam, one of the foremost Russian poets of the early twentieth century, was also celebrat...
12
Dec
Birth of Hovhannes Badalian (December 15, 1924)
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December 15 marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Hovhannes Badalian, one of the most reco...
05
Dec
Death of Abraham Alikhanian (December 8, 1970)
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Abraham Alikhanian is widely recognized as one of the leading Soviet physicists who specialized in p...
27
Nov
Death of Ariel Agemian (November 28, 1963)
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Ariel (Haroutiun) Agemian was born in Brusa, Turkey, in 1904. He was a survivor of the Armenian Geno...
21
Nov
Birth of Rosy Varte (November 22, 1923)
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Rosy Varte was a French actress of Armenian descent. She made more than 100 film and television appe...
14
Nov
Birth of Onnig Avedissian (November 21, 1898)
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Onnig Avedissian was born in Brusa (nowadays Bursa) on November 21, 1898. At the age of two, he move...
07
Nov
Death of Grigori Arutinov (November 9, 1957)
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Grigori Arutinov (known as Grigor Harutiunian in Armenian) was the first secretary of the Communist ...