* 1960 – Melvin Purvis, American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation agent ( b. 1903 )

* Melvin Purvis

Melvin Purvis was a prime example ; he was one of the most effective agents in capturing and breaking up 1930s gangs and received substantial public recognition, but a jealous Hoover maneuvered him out of the FBI.

In late July 1934, Special Agent Melvin Purvis, the Director of Operations in the Chicago office, received a tip on Dillinger's whereabouts which paid off when Dillinger was located, ambushed and killed by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater.

* 1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent ( d. 1960 )

** Melvin Purvis, American lawman ( b. 1903 )

Federal agents, led by Melvin Purvis and Samuel P. Cowley, moved to arrest him as he left the theater.

Days later, a score of federal agents led by Hugh Clegg and Melvin Purvis approached the lodge in the early morning hours.

Nash produced fingerprints and photos of Dillinger as he would appear in 1960 that were alleged sent to Melvin Purvis just prior to his 1960 alleged suicide ( more probably an accident ).

The film features Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and Christian Bale as FBI agent Melvin Purvis.

* Melvin Purvis, FBI agent

In the summer of 2008, the Little Bohemia Lodge was used in the filming of a recreation of these events in the 2009 Michael Mann film Public Enemies, a movie about Dillinger and the FBI starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis.

Melvin Purvis and a number of agents arrived by plane from Chicago, and with the gang's departure imminent, attacked the lodge quickly and with little preparation, and without notifying or obtaining help from local authorities.

On October 22, 1934, Floyd was killed in a shootout with agents including Melvin Purvis.

At a different hospital, Cowley hung on long enough to confer briefly with Melvin Purvis and undergo unsuccessful surgery before succumbing to a stomach wound similar to Nelson's.

In this film, Nelson is portrayed as being killed by Melvin Purvis at the Little Bohemia shootout, and thus does not become Public Enemy Number One after Dillinger's death.

1934 FBI photograph of the Biograph, soon after the shooting of DillingerOn July 22, 1934, after attending the film Manhattan Melodrama with brothel madam known as Ann Sage, also known as Ana Cumpănaş, and Polly Hamilton, John Dillinger was shot dead outside the Biograph by FBI agents led by Melvin Purvis, when he attempted to pull a pistol and flee into the crowd after he saw them.

In 1973 he co-starred as Melvin Purvis in John Milius's Dillinger with Warren Oates ; he would also appear in Milius's 1984 film Red Dawn.

He also portrayed coach Bill Yoast in Remember the Titans and FBI agent Melvin Purvis in the 1991 made-for-television film Dillinger.

Melvin Horace Purvis, Jr. ( October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960 ) was an American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agent.

Purvis was born in Timmonsville, South Carolina, to Melvin Horace Purvis, Sr. ( 1869 – 1938 ), a pig farmer, and Janie Elizabeth ( née Mims, 1874 – 1927 ) as the fifth of twelve siblings.

On October 22, 1934, Floyd was killed in an apple orchard on Sprucevale Road between Beaver Creek State Park and Clarkson near East Liverpool, Ohio, while being pursued by local law officers and FBI agents led by Melvin Purvis.

* Melvin Purvis ( 1903 – 1960 ), American FBI agent

He used the summer months of his graduate studies to work with planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper ( thesis advisor ), physicist George Gamow, and chemist Melvin Calvin.

Early songs with disco elements include " You Keep Me Hangin ' On " ( The Supremes, 1966 ), " Only the Strong Survive " ( Jerry Butler, 1968 ), " Message to Love " ( Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, 1970 ), " Soul Makossa " ( Manu Dibango, 1972 ), Eddie Kendricks ' Keep on Truckin ' ( 1973 ) and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ( 1973 ).

Other members of Brown's band included stalwart singer and sideman Bobby Byrd, drummers John " Jabo " Starks, Clyde Stubblefield and Melvin Parker ( Maceo's brother ), saxophonist St. Clair Pinckney, trombonist Fred Wesley, guitarist Alphonso " Country " Kellum and bassist Bernard Odum.

In 1962 Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger showed that more than one type of neutrino exists by first detecting interactions of the muon neutrino ( already hypothesised with the name neutretto ), which earned them the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.

1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

* Agrippa ’ s Daughter ( 1964 ), an English novel by Howard Melvin Fast

* Melvin Maas ( 1898 – 1964 ), American Marine aviator and politician from Minnesota

Northwood has three elected local Councillors: Cllr Scott Seaman-Digby ( first elected 1998 ), Cllr Richard Lewis ( first elected 2002 ) and Cllr Carol Melvin ( first elected 2008 ).

Melvin McAllister, Life in Hooper, Colorado, self-published ( 1998 ), 211 pages

* Melvin Eugene Carnahan ( 1934 – 2000 ), Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000

* Melvin Cottrell ( 1929 – 2002 ), former mayor of Jackson Township who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1992 until his death.

* Junk ( novel ), a novel by Melvin Burgess

When the rebels reached the town lock-up ( in an effort to rescue the prisoners ), they encountered constable Michael Melvin and in the ensuing scuffle broke his leg.

* Melvin Laird, U. S. House of Representatives ( 1952-1969 ), Secretary of Defense ( 1969-1973 )

* Melvin Mora ( born 1972 ), Venezuelan professional baseball player

However, he is forced to mature as a result of an ex-con named Melvin ( Ving Rhames ), who moves into their home.

* Melvin " Mel " Cooley ( Richard Deacon ) – the balding producer of The Alan Brady Show ( and Brady's brother-in-law ), who is constantly at odds with Buddy, who often makes insulting comments about Mel's baldness, to which Mel often responds with a simple " Yechh!

* Grandmaster Melle Mel, Melvin Glover ( born 1961 ), hip-hop musician