Claude Monet
1840 CE–1926 CE · Painter · Paris
Claude Monet was a French painter, a founding figure of Impressionism, the movement named after his 1872 canvas "Impression, Sunrise." Born in Paris in 1840 and raised in Le Havre, he was drawn to open-air painting by Eugène Boudin. In the 1860s he worked in Paris alongside Renoir, Sisley, and Pissarro. During the Franco-Prussian War he took refuge in London (1870-1871), where he met the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel and studied Turner and Constable, then worked briefly in the Netherlands before settling on the Seine. Across his career he painted the same subjects under changing light—haystacks, poplars, Rouen Cathedral, and the Thames—in extended series. From 1883 he lived at Giverny, where he built the water-lily garden that occupied his final decades. He continued painting the "Nymphéas" until his death there in 1926.
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- Henry James· 1843 CE–1916 CE
- Edvard Grieg· 1843 CE–1907 CE
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- Paul Gauguin· 1848 CE–1903 CE
- August Strindberg· 1849 CE–1912 CE
- Antoni Gaudí· 1852 CE–1926 CE
- Oscar Wilde· 1854 CE–1900 CE
- Booker T. Washington· 1856 CE–1915 CE
- Joseph Conrad· 1857 CE–1924 CE
- Giacomo Puccini· 1858 CE–1924 CE
- Emmeline Pankhurst· 1858 CE–1928 CE
- Georges Seurat· 1859 CE–1891 CE
- Anton Chekhov· 1860 CE–1904 CE
- Theodor Herzl· 1860 CE–1904 CE
- Gustav Mahler· 1860 CE–1911 CE
- Claude Debussy· 1862 CE–1918 CE
- Gustav Klimt· 1862 CE–1918 CE
- Max Weber· 1864 CE–1920 CE
- Robert Falcon Scott· 1868 CE–1912 CE
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- Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horowitz· 1847 CE–1919 CE
- Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv· 1841 CE–1926 CE
- Yitzchak Friedman (Pachad Yitzchak of Boyan)· 1850 CE–1917 CE
- Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffman· 1843 CE–1921 CE
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- Emperor Meiji· 1852 CE–1912 CE
- Chulalongkorn (Rama V)· 1853 CE–1910 CE
- Georges Clemenceau· 1841 CE–1929 CE
- Mehmed V· 1844 CE–1918 CE
- Yaa Asantewaa· 1840 CE–1921 CE
- Gojong of Korea· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Abdulhamid II· 1842 CE–1918 CE
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- Yuan Shikai· 1859 CE–1916 CE
- Quanah Parker· 1845 CE–1911 CE
- Theodore Roosevelt· 1858 CE–1919 CE
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- Woodrow Wilson· 1856 CE–1924 CE
- Edward VII· 1841 CE–1910 CE
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