Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Sofia Kovalevskaya alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Sofia Kovalevskaya were alive at the same time for 15 years, from 1850 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 40 when Sofia Kovalevskaya was born.

Sofia Kovalevskaya was 15 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

Sofia Kovalevskaya

19th-century Russian mathematician

Born 3 January 1850 (Julian calendar) · died 10 February 1891, aged 41

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