Historical Doubletakes: Celebrity Lookalikes from Beyond the Grave

We’ve all had that moment on the street, in the subway, even while watching TV, that had us pull a surprised double-take when mistaking a random stranger for someone we know. Oftentimes, it happens with celebrities, like Will Ferrell and Chad Smith, or that crazy moment when Margot Robbie finally met Jaime Pressly and broke the Internet. Despite the sheer number of people walking around the planet, factors such as genetics, ethnicity, geography, climate, and the as-yet-unknown number of genes that contribute to our facial appearance, science maintains that we all have a ‘twin’ out there, somewhere.
As the following historical photos show, however, that theory isn’t just limited to the present.