That’s Who?! 44 Rare Photos Of Historical Figures In Their Youth

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Abraham Lincoln

Circa 1846-1847. Age 36-38. (His first known photographic image.)Nicholas H. Shepherd/Library of Congress

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Mahatma Gandhi

1906. Age 36-37.Wikimedia Commons

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Albert Einstein

Circa 1904-1905. Age 24-26.Wikimedia Commons

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Adolf Hitler

Circa 1914. Age 24-25.National Archives

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Mother Teresa

Circa 1928-1929. Age 18.Vittoriano Rastelli/Corbis via Getty Images

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Saddam Hussein

1963. Age 25-26.Laurent VAN DER STOCKT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

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Richard Nixon

Circa 1930. Age 17.Fox Photos/Getty Images

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Queen Elizabeth II

1952. Age 26.Douglas Miller/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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Joseph Stalin

1902. Age 23-24.Wikimedia Commons

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Hillary Clinton

1969. Age 21.Wellesley College/Sygma via Getty Images

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Stephen Hawking

1965. Age 23.Hawking.org

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Vincent van Gogh

1873. Age 19.Wikimedia Commons

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Vladimir Putin

1971. Age 18-19.Laski Diffusion/Getty Images

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Theodore Roosevelt

1880. Age 21-22.Library of Congress

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Bill Gates

1977. Age 22.Public Domain

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Bill Clinton

1963. Age 16. (Left, shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy.)Arnold Sachs/Getty Images

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Pope Francis

Date unspecified.Jesuit General Curia via Getty Images

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Barack Obama

1990. Age 28.Joe Wrinn/Harvard University/Corbis via Getty Images

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Mark Twain

Circa 1859. Age 24.Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images

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Sigmund Freud

1872. Age 15-16. (With his mother.)Wikimedia Commons

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John McCain

1965. Age 28-29.Library of Congress

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Winston Churchill

1895. Age 20-21.Imperial War Museums/Wikimedia Commons

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Pablo Picasso

1908. Age 26-27.Wikimedia Commons

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Maya Angelou

1957. Age 28-29.Library of Congress

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Nikola Tesla

1879. Age 23.Wikimedia

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Fidel Castro

1955. Age 28-29.Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images

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Gerald Ford

1933. Age 20.Gerald R. Ford Library

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1904. Age 22.Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

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Ernest Hemingway

Circa 1918. Age 18-19.National Archives

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Frederick Douglass

Circa 1847-1852. Age 28-32.Samuel J. Miller/Art Institute of Chicago/Wikimedia Commons

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Calvin Coolidge

Circa 1891-1895. Age 19-22.Wikimedia Commons

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Eleanor Roosevelt

1908. Age 23-24. (With husband Franklin Roosevelt and two of their children.)Wikimedia Commons

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Dwight Eisenhower

1912. Age 21-22.National Archives

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Benito Mussolini

1903. Age 20.Wikimedia Commons

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Thomas Edison

Circa 1878. Age 30.Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons

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Vladimir Lenin

1887. Age 17.Culture Club/Getty Images

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Harry Truman

1912. Age 27-28.National Archives

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Marie Curie

Circa 1886. Age 18-19. (Left, with her sister.)Wikimedia Commons

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Mao Zedong

1927. Age 33-34.Wikimedia Commons

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Herbert Hoover

1898. Age 23.State Library of Western Australia/Wikimedia Commons

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Susan B. Anthony

Circa 1848-1849. Age 28.Wikimedia Commons

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Pope John Paul II

1945. Age 24-25.Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images

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Muammar Gaddafi

Date unspecified.Stevan Kragujević/Wikimedia Commons

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Nelson Mandela

1937. Age 19.Wikimedia Commons

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