16+ Pics Of The Past That Show A New Spin On Famous Figures

For instance, here we see Ham the chimpanzee posing with a newspaper excitedly announcing that he survived his journey into the final frontier.

Here we see him with Russian Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, her five children, and their nurse.

Maybe it's just me, but I think Rasputin looks a little bit like Ringo Starr in this photo. Maybe that's why he's not as scary here.

For those who give up, this is none other than Leonard Nimoy.

Considering that reviews at the time pegged him as playing the role quite well, it's not surprising that he spent years frustrated by the fact that most people only knew him as Mr. Spock.

To the right is Marie Curie, who would win two of them in her lifetime. One for physics was split with her husband Pierre in 1903, while another for chemistry was earned on her own in 1911.

Also pictured is their daughter Irène, who would also take home the prize for chemistry in 1935.

However, we're so used to seeing him with the more chiselled features of his youth that if we passed by him while this 1971 photo was taken, we may never realize who he was.

Here we see Louis Chevrolet, who was both a champion bicycle racer and the owner of a bike brand before his name became so closely tied to cars.

Aside from those wide glasses and a lot less gray in his beard, he doesn't look terribly different to how we might picture him later in life.

As confirmed by the U.S. House of Representatives, he was a member of the Continental Congress that also counts America's founding fathers among its ranks.

By 1840, he became the only Continental Congress member to be photographed.

This is a photo of Queen Elizabeth's husband Prince Phillip that was taken back in 1936.

He obviously looks very different now, but you might notice he shared some facial features with the younger members of his family in this picture.

At a Los Angeles high-rise in 1981, the unidentified man we see here made it clear to the gathered crowd that he was going to jump.

When boxing legend Muhammad Ali heard about this situation from his public relations manager, however, he traveled to the scene and leaned out of a ninth-floor window to convince the man not to go through with it. Fortunately, he was very persuasive that day.

By this point, he had experienced three strokes, the last of which rendered him completely mute.

It's perhaps not surprising that this would be the last photo he would sit for in his life.

As he told Rolling Stone, he had become completely bald by the time he was 20, but used to wear this expensive hair piece to auditions.

As he said, he would often take it off and say to casting directors, "Hey, two actors for the price of one. You can’t turn this down, can you?"

Although Photoshop obviously didn't exist in 1902, the Library of Congress confirmed that this photo was a fake created by slicing multiple negatives together.

Although it's hard to recognize him with a full head of hair, his preferred style of glasses offer a small clue as to who we're looking at here.

It's actually Curb Your Enthusiasm creator and Seinfeld co-creator Larry David.

But if you've figured out that this 1966 selfie was taken by Beatles icon John Lennon, then you're on a level of Beatles fandom that borders on Beatles historian.

As confirmed by The Chicago Tribune, here we see her being crowned Miss Fire Prevention of Nashville in 1971.

It's unclear what exactly she did to earn that title, but it was apparently very safe.

Yes, that is actually what he looked like as a baby. He's pictured with his parents, Rose and Salvatore, in 1940.

I think we can kind of see the resemblance here.

It's none other than 44th President of the United States Barack Obama pictured when he was about 20 years old.

Instead, it reveals not only that at least one person made a puppet version of him while he was alive, but also that he was aware of it.

He also happened to be studying at Harvard at the time and while this may not be what he wore to class, it's hard to imagine someone with enough guts to stop him if he wanted to.