Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Gustav Kirchhoff alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Gustav Kirchhoff were alive at the same time for 41 years, from 1824 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 15 when Gustav Kirchhoff was born.

Gustav Kirchhoff was 41 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

Gustav Kirchhoff

German physicist

Born 12 March 1824 · died 17 October 1887, aged 63

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Gustav Kirchhoff
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Albert Einstein
Abraham Lincoln and Gustav Kirchhoff 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.