You can probably only picture these famous faces when they were old, but here they are like you’ve never seen them before.
Abraham Lincoln
Mahatma Gandhi
Albert Einstein
Adolf Hitler
Mother Teresa
Saddam Hussein
Richard Nixon
Queen Elizabeth II
Joseph Stalin
Hillary Clinton
Stephen Hawking
Vincent van Gogh
Vladimir Putin
Theodore Roosevelt
Bill Gates
Bill Clinton
Pope Francis
Barack Obama
Mark Twain
Sigmund Freud
John McCain
Winston Churchill
Pablo Picasso
Maya Angelou
Nikola Tesla
Fidel Castro
Gerald Ford
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ernest Hemingway
Frederick Douglass
Calvin Coolidge
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
Benito Mussolini
Thomas Edison
Vladimir Lenin
Harry Truman
Marie Curie
Mao Zedong
Herbert Hoover
Susan B. Anthony
Pope John Paul II
Muammar Gaddafi
Nelson Mandela
From Abraham Lincoln to Albert Einstein to Queen Elizabeth II , some of modernistic account ’s most famous face exist in our mind solely as they come out in previous age . Just endeavor to picture Lincoln , or , say , Winston Churchill or Mahatma Gandhi as a young man and you ’ll probably come up blank .
Whether it ’s because these the great unwashed did n’t truly make their sign on chronicle until tardy in sprightliness or because they did n’t assume their now iconic appearance until at least middle eld , they ’ll inhabit on in our minds , not to mention the chronicle books , looking older .
But if you ’ve ever been rummy about what some of New history ’s most important leaders , thinkers , and creative person count like in their youthfulness , take a spirit at the seldom - see photos above .
Next , see what some of modern history ’s most revile dictators looked likewhen they were just tike . Then , see 29 prototype of American presidentswhen they were vernal .
Circa 1846-1847. Age 36-38. (His first known photographic image.)
1906. Age 36-37.
Circa 1904-1905. Age 24-26.
Circa 1914. Age 24-25.
Circa 1928-1929. Age 18.
1963. Age 25-26.
Circa 1930. Age 17.
1952. Age 26.
1902. Age 23-24.
1969. Age 21.
1965. Age 23.
1873. Age 19.
1971. Age 18-19.
1880. Age 21-22.
1977. Age 22.
1963. Age 16. (Left, shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy.)
Date unspecified.
1990. Age 28.
Circa 1859. Age 24.
1872. Age 15-16. (With his mother.)
1965. Age 28-29.
1895. Age 20-21.
1908. Age 26-27.
1957. Age 28-29.
1879. Age 23.
1955. Age 28-29.
1933. Age 20.
1904. Age 22.
Circa 1918. Age 18-19.
Circa 1847-1852. Age 28-32.
Circa 1891-1895. Age 19-22.
1908. Age 23-24. (With husband Franklin Roosevelt and two of their children.)
1912. Age 21-22.
1903. Age 20.
Circa 1878. Age 30.
1887. Age 17.
1912. Age 27-28.
Circa 1886. Age 18-19. (Left, with her sister.)
1927. Age 33-34.
1898. Age 23.
Circa 1848-1849. Age 28.
1945. Age 24-25.
Date unspecified.
1937. Age 19.
