Historical Figures Born in 1840
Notable people born in 1840. Each links to a full biography, feats, trivia and similar figures.
Claude Monet
90Claude Monet was a French painter and the leading founder of Impressionism, whose studies of light and atmosphere — from Impression, Sunrise to the Water Lilies — revolutionized modern painting.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
89Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian Romantic composer whose richly emotional music — including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker and the 1812 Overture — made him one of the most popular and widely performed composers in the world.