Who Was Alive

Were James Fenimore Cooper and Abraham Lincoln alive at the same time?

Yes. James Fenimore Cooper and Abraham Lincoln were alive at the same time for 42 years, from 1809 to 1851.

James Fenimore Cooper was 19 when Abraham Lincoln was born.

Abraham Lincoln was 42 when James Fenimore Cooper died, aged 61.

James Fenimore Cooper

American writer

Born 15 September 1789 · died 14 September 1851, aged 61

Abraham Lincoln

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

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

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Napoleon
  3. James Fenimore Cooper
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Leo Tolstoy
James Fenimore Cooper and Abraham Lincoln 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.