13 premature babies who became great figures in history

Surely you know someone who was born prematurely, or perhaps was born earlier than expected. What we are sure of is that it is more and more common to find people who were born before the expected time. Despite this, this type of delivery is the leading cause of neonatal mortality and the second leading cause of infant mortality. Other studies, in turn, say that almost half of the premature population tends to have cognitive sequelae. However, history has given us examples to the contrary, as there are great thinkers, musicians and artists who were born before their time.

O awesome.club created for you this list of celebrities who, being premature, managed to get very, very far.

Writer, historian and french philosopher, Voltaire was one of the leading representatives of the Enlightenment and was an expert at ridiculing his enemies with irony. He also believed that the main task of human beings was to take ownership of their own destiny and improve their condition, always enjoying art, science and technology. At the time of his birth, his life expectancy was very low. Even so, Voltaire took the reins of his destiny and managed to live to be 83 years old.

O astronomer Johannes Kepler was born to a mercenary father and a mother accused of being a sorceress. From a young age, he was a very gifted student, with a IQ of 160, which earned him a scholarship at the University of Arts. In fact, Kepler became interested in Astronomy because of a very curious story. After the death of one of his professors, the University of Tübingen offered him the chair of Mathematics and Astronomy. At that time he was studying theology and, full of doubts that his own career could not answer, he accepted the position. Another curious fact is that, at some point in his life, the scientist had to dedicate himself to selling
horoscopes and predictions.

Darwin was born into a family of doctors and he himself seemed destined for the profession, but it was not. The young man, who would become the most important naturalist of the story, had a little affectionate behavior for school and studies. Fulfilling his father’s wishes, he entered the University of Edinburgh, where he found that he was afraid of blood and hated dissections. The only thing that interested him was birdwatching and collecting beetles, until he became intrigued by the work of Lamark and Humboldt. Despite being considered a bad student, one day he managed to board the boat “Beagle”, and there began his adventure in Latin America, which culminated in his famous “Evolution theory🇧🇷

The big french painter was the sixth child of a very modest family. Renoir had an excellent ability to represent feelings and give new expression to everyday life images, and that’s how he became one of the main exponents of Impressionism. A feature of his works was the cheerful and colorful appearance of the female figure. His wife Aline is depicted in his most famous paintings. We cannot say that the painter enjoyed great health, but he lived to be 78 years old.

He was prime minister of the united kingdom during World War II and probably the savior of England and Europe. He was born in November 1874, two months ahead of schedule, and died ninety years later. In the course of his life, he went from being a spoiled child from an aristocratic family with serious problems to entering school and becoming an amazing politician and writer. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and the title of Duke, despite not belonging to the royal family.

Albert Einstein, the figure most used to represent the genius, was also a premature baby. His parents feared for his health, because he was born with a disproportionate head in relation to the rest of his body. In addition, he only started talking at the age of three, just to show his dissatisfaction with orders, rules and the educational system. On one occasion, a teacher of young Einstein told him to stop studying, that he would never amount to anything. After a very difficult academic life, and isolated because he was Jewish, Albert obtained a university degree. It was then that he entered history, publishing very important works for humanity, such as his “Theory of Relativity”. Much later, he felt responsible for creating the atomic bombEinstein said: “If I had to go back in time, I would become a plumber”.

The big russian ballerina Anna Pavlova was born in 1885. During her childhood she suffered from many illnesses, in addition to having a delicate and smaller than normal body. At the age of eight, she watched the staging of “The Sleeping Beauty”, and that’s when her love for dance was born. Two years later, she entered the Imperial Ballet School. The graceful and delicate physical appearance, which became her trademark, stood out from the stereotype of the robust ballerina, common at her time. She began to triumph on stage with the ballet “The Death of the Swan”. Years later, after touring the world with her dance company and her husband Victor Dandré (who was also her manager), Anna caught pneumonia while traveling by train. She was unable to recover from her illness and died the day before she was to re-enact “The Death of the Swan”.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a attorney and political American, stood out as the first president to be elected four times in a row. But his great achievement was to have been one of the great elements in the Allied victory in World War II. He had a brilliant political career, but unfortunately his personal life did not. To begin with, he suffered from polio, which caused partial paralysis of the body. In addition, there were many extramarital affairs of his. However, being an important politician, his marriage had to remain unshakable. His wife, Eleanor, was the opposite of a public figure, as she was shy and reserved. Together they had six children, of whom only four survived, each with their respective stormy lives, full of divorces and marriages. At the end of World War II, days before the allied takeover of Berlin, Roosevelt was sitting in his presidential office when he said that he felt a great pain in the back of his head. A few seconds later, fell out of his chair and died of a stroke.

Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642, weighing just 1,360 kg. According to some stories, it fit into a liter container. He was an excellent student, which the other students looked at suspiciously. He never had a very active social life. In fact, he died unmarried, aged 84, an advanced age for his time. His unusual mind formulated the “law of universal gravitation”. Furthermore, Newton understood how light is formed while watching a ray of sunlight pass through a crystal prism. He also created the reflecting telescope and, now older, published the “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, where he explains what is conventionally called “Newton’s 3 Laws”. At great discoveries of Newton came to light after a long time, because the english sage he feared that his theories would be disregarded.

Napoleon was the emperor of france who dreamed that Paris would become the capital of the world, and was known for his battles to conquer all of Europe. He was born in 1769 on Corsica, the island that Louis XVI bought from Genoa a year earlier, which means he was almost born Genoese and not French! With an indisputably dominant character, Napoleon was the “headstrong” from school. He didn’t socialize much, and his life was filled with books and drawings of soldiers. Although he felt alienated from the rules that were imposed on him in childhood, when he became sovereign of France he created a Civil Code, defining the strict laws that should guide French families.

Stevie Wonder was born seven weeks earlier than expected. He came into the world blind, because his retinas could not develop in such a short period of gestation. But the wonderful part of this story award-winning musician is that he managed to deal with his shortcomings and succeed. And when we talk about “disabilities”, it’s because Stevie also partially lost her sense of smell in a car accident. With only three senses, Wonder won 25 Grammyssold 100 million records and established himself as one of the most important musicians of our time.

The big french writer he was born prematurely in February 1802 and had been passionate about painting since he was a child. At age 17, he founded his own magazine, “Le Conservateur Littéraire” (The Literary Conservator), in which he wrote under 11 different pseudonyms. At just 28 years old, an editor commissioned him to create a novel that would be published the same year. After hours of work, without taking time to eat or prepare, the famous writer finished the work “Our Lady of Paris”. He was voluntarily exiled to Brussels because he opposed Napoleon III’s coup d’état. It was there that he wrote his most important work, “Les Miserables”.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens is the real name of Mark Twain, famous novel author such as “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. Its life began two months earlier than planned, on November 30, 1835. It came into the world with Halley’s Comet and, curiously, departed the day before the comet’s return, in 1910. Twain ironically anticipated its death a year earlier in a from your notes: “I came into the world with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It comes back next year and I hope to hang out with it. It will be the biggest disappointment of my life if I don’t go with Halley’s Comet. 🇧🇷

Undoubtedly, these people showed that intelligence and genius have nothing to do with the time of your birth, but with your desire to live a great life. Do you know any other premature geniuses? Tell us in the comments below.