Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Heinrich Hertz alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Heinrich Hertz were alive at the same time for 8 years, from 1857 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 48 when Heinrich Hertz was born.

Heinrich Hertz was 8 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

Heinrich Hertz

German physicist

Born 22 February 1857 · died 1 January 1894, aged 36

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