Auguste Renoir was a French artist and one of the leading figures in the Impressionist movement. He was born in 1841 and died in 1919. Pierre-Auguste Comte was a French philosopher who is considered to be the founder of sociology. He was born in 1798 and died in 1857. Auguste and Louis Lumière were two brothers who invented the cinematograph, a motion picture camera. They were born in 1862 and 1864 respectively. Auguste Renoir's works are often referred to as Renoirs.