17 Historical Figures Who Could Hit Millions of Likes On Instagram With Ease
Over time, there have been many versions of beauty that have been celebrated as the “ideal”, but some beauty is timeless. It means that if they live in any era, their beauty will attract everyone’s attention. In fact, there are a handful of gorgeous people over 100 years ago that could’ve easily won even the hottest modern celebs when it comes to physical appearance.
We wandered on the Internet and collected some of pictures of historical people who will make you believe filters may exist in the past. We’re sure that if they lived in modern life and owned their Instagram accounts, their images would hit one million likes or even more. Now, scroll down to see who they are, and don’t miss the final pics because it proves that age also doesn’t define beauty.
#1 Coco Chanel would’ve served the most iconic OOTDs that everyone would die for
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#2 Benjamin Piatt Runkle — one of the Sigma Chi fraternity founders, who’s anything but what we expect a ’frat boy’ to look like
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#3 Lillie Langtry inspired Sherlock Holmes’ only love, Irene Adler, and snatched our hearts as well
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#4 Charlie Chaplin had to hide his boyish charm behind his costume to keep us focused on his comedy
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#5 Cléo de Mérode was the most photographed woman in the early twentieth century. She definitely would’ve had the most followers
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#6 Harry Houdini — you’d come for magic, but end up falling under his spell
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#7 Hermann Rorschach — the ’Brad Pitt’ of psychiatry, according to his online fans
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#8 Evelyn Nesbit, America’s first supermodel, would’ve surely had posts with the most likes
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#9 Geneviève Lantelme, the French heartbreaker, has features that define “romance”
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#10 Marie Doro, the “eccentric Helena Bohnam Carter” of the early 1900s
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#11 Maude Fealy rocked the ’70s hippie aesthetic before it was coolMaude Fealy rocked the ’70s hippie aesthetic before it was cool
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#12 Johannes Brahms could make you swoon with both his symphonies and his disarming looks
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#13 Lina Cavalieri — as legend has it, she received 840 proposals, so we definitely wouldn’t be expecting her to check all of her DMs
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#14 Lewis Payne is the ultimate bad boy of our dreams, and he knows it
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#15 This Luzon woman of the Philippines — she’s so stunning, she doesn’t even have to try. She would’ve gone viral in a few days
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#16 Anna May Wong — total babe of silent film era who let her eyes do all the talking
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