Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Beecher Stowe alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Beecher Stowe were alive at the same time for 53 years, from 1811 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 2 when Harriet Beecher Stowe was born.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was 53 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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

American abolitionist and author

Born 14 June 1811 · died 1 July 1896, aged 85

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