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#1. 14-year-old Winston Churchill trying on his Eton school uniform, 1889.
#2. Ben Stiller, 13, visiting New York with his dad, Jerry, in 1978.
#3. Paul McCartney aged 8 in the countryside with his father, 1950.
#4. Italian film star and model Monica Bellucci in 1975.
#5. Jean-Claude Van Damme before he discovered the gym.
#6. 12-year-old Stephen Hawking in 1954, years before he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease.
#7. George Clooney, 7, looks at his father Nick (who he’ll soon be the spitting image of).
#8. John Lennon, 17, with his soon-to-be wife Cynthia in 1957.
#9. 18-year-old Theodore Roosevelt in 1876.
#10. Fidel Castro aged 17 playing basketball in high school, 1943.
#11. A 13-year-old Audrey Hepburn in 1942.
#12. 13-year-old Cher’s 1959 mugshot, after she was arrested for “borrowing” her mom’s car and driving without a license.
#13. Barack Obama aged 4 learning to ride a bike in 1965.
#14. 19-year-old Marilyn Monroe working at the Radioplane factory in 1945.
#15. John Wayne, aged 19, in 1926.
#16. Cassius Clay Jr, soon to be Muhammed Ali, aged 12 in 1954.
#17. An eight-year-old Andy Warhol in 1936.
#18. A very dapper Frank Sinatra aged just 10 in 1925.
#19. Pamela Anderson, aged 21, posing in 1989.
#20. 18-year-old Alan Rickman smoking in school in 1964.
#21. And a young Sean Connery looking suave as ever around 1960.