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David Bowie

Jonathan Stone for Art-Sheep

We see them on their albums’ covers, old rare pictures and successful movies, but their passports, this is something we definitely haven’t see. before!

It’s interesting how a small -but super important, piece of paper can remind us that people like Marilyn Monroe were just people who had to travel and needed a passport for it. It’s also interesting how Walt Disney got to smile for his passport picture, while we had to look serious with our hair behind our ears.

From James Joyce to Muhammad Ali and Albert Einstein to David Bowie, here’s a list of passports and other official documents of extremely famous, smart, beautiful and talented people of the past century.

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Johnny Cash

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Walt Disney

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James Joyce

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Albert Einstein

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Muhammad Ali

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Roy Orbison

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Rene Magritte

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Katharine Hepburn

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Virginia Wolf

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Sammy Davies

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Marilyn Monroe

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Ernest Hemingway

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Janis Joplin

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Ella Fitzgerald

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John Lennon