Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Guy de Maupassant alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Guy de Maupassant were alive at the same time for 14 years, from 1850 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 41 when Guy de Maupassant was born.

Guy de Maupassant was 14 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

Guy de Maupassant

French writer

Born 5 August 1850 · died 6 July 1893, aged 42

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Guy de Maupassant
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. Adolf Hitler
Abraham Lincoln and Guy de Maupassant 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.