Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Louis Pasteur alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Louis Pasteur were alive at the same time for 42 years, from 1822 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 13 when Louis Pasteur was born.

Louis Pasteur was 42 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

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist

Born 27 December 1822 · died 28 September 1895, aged 72

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