Who Was Alive

Were Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Abraham Lincoln alive at the same time?

Yes. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Abraham Lincoln were alive at the same time for 20 years, from 1809 to 1829.

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck was 64 when Abraham Lincoln was born.

Abraham Lincoln was 20 when Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck died, aged 85.

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

French naturalist

Born 1 August 1744 · died 18 December 1829, aged 85

Abraham Lincoln

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

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

  1. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Napoleon
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Leo Tolstoy
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 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.