The great figures of history are often captured on camera making speeches, planning wars, and staging protests.
But every once in a while, a rare photo will surface of them casually living their life, and the contrast is jarring. Nixon loved to bowl and play piano, Winston Churchill liked to swim, and JFK once fed a deer in his pajamas.
Witness some strange and hilarious pics of the giants of history living their funny little lives.
1
Stalin doing a silly face to the camera
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Che Guevara and Fidel Castro having a quick round of golf, 1959
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3
Former President of Uganda General Idi Amin playing basketball in the 1970s
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Martin Luther King Jr. making a behind-the-back pool shot during a visit to a pool hall in Chicago, 1966
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Pablo Picasso smoking on the beach
Photo by Lee Miller
6
Ghandi spinning thread
via Wikipedia
7
Albert Einstein wearing a pair of fuzzy slippers, 1950s
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Audrey Hepburn casually shopping in a Beverly Hills supermarket with her pet deer Pippin, 1958
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Winston Churchill in his swimming suit, 1922
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. swimming in Jamaica, 1967
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Nixon pounding the keys, 1962
Photo via Wikipedia
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Queen Elizabeth Fires an SA 80 rifle whilst visiting troops in 1993
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13
Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn getting a kiss from Lyndon B. Johnson, 1956
Photo via the Houston Chronicle
14
Alfred Hitchcock talking to his dog
On the set of ‘The Pleasure Garden’, 1953
15
President John F. Kennedy feeding a deer bread, in his pajamas and slippers in California, 1963
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Chairman Mao Zedong playing pingpong, 1965
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President Richard Nixon Bowling at the Executive Office Building, 1970
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