Too often, we forget that historical figures were real people just like us. Even more too often, we forget that some of them were ridiculously good looking. This list is dedicated to all the historical hotties. Let's not let their beautiful memories die.

1. Hermann Rorschach

Famous for: Inventing the Rorschach inkblot test.

2. Jack Kerouac

Famous for:Writing the Beat Generation classic On The Road.

3. Joseph Stalin

Famous for: Being the dictator of the USSR and killing literally millions of people.

4. Buster Keaton

Famous for: Being a silent movie acting icon.

5. Vivien Thomas

Famous for: Being a legendary surgical technician who developed a lifesaving cardiac surgery for infants.

6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.

Famous for: being a congressman who headed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He was also the son of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.

7. Zhou Enlai

Famous for: being the first Premier of the People's China. He also helped make sure communism happened in China when he worked as an advisor to Mao Zedong.

8. Lewis Powell

Famous for: being the would-be assassin of U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward. He worked with John Wilkes Booth, who while also not bad looking was no Lewis Powell.

9. Johannes Brahms

Famous for: composing a bunch of classical classics.

10. Rupert Brooke

Famous for: during WWI, writing poetry as beautiful as he was.

11. Mark Twain

Famous for: writing a bunch of classic American novels that you definitely read (or were supposed to have read) during high school.

12. Jack Johnson

Famous for: becoming, at the height of the Jim Crow Era, the first African American world heavyweight champion.

13. Che Guevara

Famous for: being instrumental in the Cuban Revolution.