Social media is awash with nostalgia as people use photos to reminisce about their 21-year-old selves. Qalam couldn't resist joining in, sharing how prominent figures looked at the same age (or well, approximately!)
Winston Churchill, at twenty-one, worked as a correspondent for the Daily Graphic newspaper in Cuba and was formally listed as a Hussar / Alamy
At the age of twenty-one, Alexander the Great was already king of Macedonia and had conquered Greece / Wikimedia Commons
The Egyptian Cleopatra, at twenty-one, enchanted Caesar, shaping their legendary romance / Getty Images
At the age of twenty-one, the future leader of the world proletariat Vladimir Lenin had just graduated from law school / TASS
At twenty-one, Napoleon Bonaparte was a little-known officer of the French revolutionary army / Wikimedia Commons
The future First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Dinmukhamed Kunayev at twenty-one was a student at the Moscow Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold / kunayev.kz
At twenty-one, the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was still studying at the Ottoman Military College / Wikimedia Commons
The Eternal President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) had, at the age of twenty-one, just come up with his famous pseudonym—Kim Il Sung / Open source image
The founder of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong, at twenty-one, under pressure from his father, enrolled in a teacher training college / Alamy
At twenty-one, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the president of Kazakhstan, was studying at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) / Open source image