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Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. [3] He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet (1800–1871) and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet (1805–1857), both of them second-generation Parisians.
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (/ ˈ d ɑː m ər /; May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, [4] was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen males between 1978 and 1991. [5]
On June 18, 2018, 20-year-old American rapper Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, known professionally as XXXTentacion, was murdered in Deerfield Beach, Florida.Onfroy was fatally shot and killed by 22-year-old Michael Boatwright after being robbed in his car by Boatwright and his accomplices Trayvon Newsome, Dedrick Williams, and Robert Allen outside RIVA Motorsports, an upscale seller of ...
John Winston Ono Lennon [nb 1] (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician.He gained worldwide fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.
The White House, official residence of the president of the United States, in July 2008. The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2]
Dahl's time at St Peter's was unpleasant; he was very homesick and wrote to his mother every week but never revealed his unhappiness to her. After her death in 1967, he learned that she had saved every one of his letters; [34] they were broadcast in abridged form as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in 2016 to mark the centenary of his birth. [35]
Her death was "the most devastating loss" in Tejano music history, according to Zach Quaintance of The Monitor. [246] At the time of her death, Selena became one of the most widely known Mexican-American vocal artists [252] [253] and the most popular Latin artist in the United States. [253] She had a "cult-like" following among Hispanics. [254]
Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7]