Who Was Alive

Were Napoleon III and Abraham Lincoln alive at the same time?

Yes. Napoleon III and Abraham Lincoln were alive at the same time for 56 years, from 1809 to 1865.

Napoleon III was under a year old when Abraham Lincoln was born.

Both were 56 when Abraham Lincoln died.

Napoleon III

President of the Second French Republic, Emperor of the Second French Empire and last monarch of France

Born 20 April 1808 · died 9 January 1873, aged 64

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. Napoleon III
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
Napoleon III 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.