Benjamin Button

Origin
Benjamin Button is an unusual late–19th and early–20th Century character who ages backwards, having been born looking like an old man and dying looking like an infant. He first appeared in the short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (1922), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which was first published in Collier’s magazine in 1922 and then reprinted in the book Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), and so is now in the public domain. The original appearance includes two illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg.

Public domain appearances
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (1922)