For some, following the lives and times of celebrities is everything. For others, the lives of famous people couldn't mean less. For both the lovers and haters of celebrity paparazzi, here are rare photographs of classic famous figures that have much more to them than just plain old gossip. |
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, 1991 |
John Lennon and Yoko Ono |
Lenin and his cat |
Viktor Tsoi taking his dog for a walk, September 1985 |
Yuri Gagarin, a skeleton and his friend |
Bruce Willis at 22 years old |
Bruce Lee, the cha-cha champion, Hong Kong, 1958 |
Marilyn Monroe opens the football match between the USA-Israel, New York, 1959 |
Pele playing guitar during the World Cup of football in 1970 |
Marlene Dietrich plays the musical saw |
Charlie Chaplin with his daughters Josephine and Victoria, 1966 |
David Bowie in bed on the Trans-Siberian Express, 1973 |
Elton John shows off his football skills, 1976 |
Diego Maradona listening to records |
Bill and Hillary Clinton |
The Beatles and Muhammad Ali, 1964 |
Coco Chanel and Salvador Dali, 1930 |
Sophia Loren at the Kremlin Palace, 1965 |
Audrey Hepburn at the hair salon, 1953 |
Elvis with a bazooka in the US Army, 1958 |
A surprised Yevgeny Morgunov, 1970 |
A young Kirsten Dunst |
A young Milla Jovovich in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine |
Ewan McGregor and Vodka 'Stolichnaya' |
Martin Luther King Jr. after the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, June 19, 1964 |
Frank Sinatra, 1965 |
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