Who Was Alive

Were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Abraham Lincoln alive at the same time?

Yes. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Abraham Lincoln were alive at the same time for 56 years, from 1809 to 1865.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was 5 when Abraham Lincoln was born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was 61 when Abraham Lincoln died, aged 56.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher

Born 25 May 1803 · died 27 April 1882, aged 78

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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.