Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin were alive at the same time for 39 years, from 1825 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 16 when William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was born.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was 39 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

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

British physicist and engineer

Born 26 June 1825 · died 17 December 1907, aged 82

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. Adolf Hitler
Abraham Lincoln and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin 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.