Who Was Alive

Abraham Lincoln

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

Born 12 February 1809 · died 15 April 1865, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Abraham Lincoln?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Lord Byron
  6. Alexander Pushkin
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Hans Christian Andersen
  9. Edgar Allan Poe
  10. Abraham Lincoln
  11. Charles Darwin
  12. Charles Dickens
  13. Otto von Bismarck
  14. Karl Marx
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  16. Leo Tolstoy
  17. Mark Twain
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche
  19. Thomas Edison
  20. Vincent van Gogh
  21. Oscar Wilde
  22. Sigmund Freud
  23. Anton Chekhov
  24. Rabindranath Tagore
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Abraham Lincoln was born, Napoleon was 39, Charles Darwin was under a year old, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 59, Victor Hugo was 6 and Alexander Pushkin was 9.

When Abraham Lincoln died, Karl Marx was 46, Leo Tolstoy was 36, Charles Darwin was 56, Victor Hugo was 63 and Vincent van Gogh was 12.

Born during Abraham Lincoln’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison and Mark Twain.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 14 years after Abraham Lincoln died, Vladimir Lenin was born 5 years after Abraham Lincoln died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 4 years after Abraham Lincoln died and Joseph Stalin was born 13 years after Abraham Lincoln died.

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All 354 contemporaries we track

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  8. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  12. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  13. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  22. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  25. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  26. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  27. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  28. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  29. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  30. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  31. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  32. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  33. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  34. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  35. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  36. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  37. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  38. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  39. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  40. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  41. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  42. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  43. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  44. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  45. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  46. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  47. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  48. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  49. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  50. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  51. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  52. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  53. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  54. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  55. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  56. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  57. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  58. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  59. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  60. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  61. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  62. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  63. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  64. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  65. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  66. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  67. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  68. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  69. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  70. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  71. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  72. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  73. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  74. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  75. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  76. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  77. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  78. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  79. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  80. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  81. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  82. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  83. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  84. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  85. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  86. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  87. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  88. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  89. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  90. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  91. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  92. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  93. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  94. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  95. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  96. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  97. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  98. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  99. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  100. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  101. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  102. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  103. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  104. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  105. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  106. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  107. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  108. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  109. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  110. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  111. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  112. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  113. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  114. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  115. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  116. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  117. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  118. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  119. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  120. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  121. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  122. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  123. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  124. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  125. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  126. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  127. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  128. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  129. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  130. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  131. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  132. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  133. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  134. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  135. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  136. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  137. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  138. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  139. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  140. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  141. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  142. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  143. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  144. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  145. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  146. Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918
  147. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  148. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  149. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  150. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873

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