Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Empress Dowager Cixi alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Empress Dowager Cixi were alive at the same time for 29 years, from 1835 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 26 when Empress Dowager Cixi was born.

Empress Dowager Cixi was 29 when Abraham Lincoln died, aged 56.

Abraham Lincoln

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

Born 12 February 1809 · died 15 April 1865, aged 56

Empress Dowager Cixi

Chinese empress

Born 29 November 1835 · died 15 November 1908, aged 72

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Empress Dowager Cixi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. Adolf Hitler
Abraham Lincoln and Empress Dowager Cixi in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.