Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Robert Louis Stevenson alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Robert Louis Stevenson were alive at the same time for 14 years, from 1850 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 41 when Robert Louis Stevenson was born.

Robert Louis Stevenson 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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist and poet

Born 13 November 1850 · died 3 December 1894, aged 44

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