Who Was Alive

Were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Abraham Lincoln alive at the same time?

Yes. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Abraham Lincoln were alive at the same time for 25 years, from 1809 to 1834.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was 36 when Abraham Lincoln was born.

Abraham Lincoln was 25 when Samuel Taylor Coleridge died, aged 61.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, literary critic and philosopher

Born 21 October 1772 · died 25 July 1834, 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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Leo Tolstoy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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.