Who was alive at the same time as Abraham Lincoln?

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

Abraham Lincoln lived 1809–1865. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1809–1865
Lifespan: about 56 years
Born in, as it was then: Hodgenville, KY
On today’s map: United States

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When Abraham Lincoln was born, Ludwig van Beethoven was already about 39 years old.
Abraham Lincoln was about 9 when Karl Marx was born.
Abraham Lincoln and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician) shared about 23 years on Earth, one born in the United States and the other in the Holy Roman Empire.
Vincent van Gogh outlived Abraham Lincoln by about 25 years.

Famous contemporaries of Abraham Lincoln

Rulers and commanders

Napoleon 1769–1821 · 12 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 50 yrs shared
Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826 · 17 yrs shared
Napoleon III 1808–1873 · 56 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Karl Marx 1818–1883 · 47 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 9 yrs shared
Charles Darwin 1809–1882 · 56 yrs shared
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 · 21 yrs shared
Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855 · 46 yrs shared
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770–1831 · 22 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770–1827 · 18 yrs shared
Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 · 12 yrs shared
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832 · 23 yrs shared
Victor Hugo 1802–1885 · 56 yrs shared
Richard Wagner 1813–1883 · 52 yrs shared
Oscar Wilde 1854–1900 · 11 yrs shared

Born within five years of Abraham Lincoln

Charles Darwin (1809) · Richard Wagner (1813) · Frédéric Chopin (1810) · Giuseppe Verdi (1813) · Edgar Allan Poe (1809) · Hans Christian Andersen (1805) · Napoleon III (1808) · Nikolai Gogol (1809)

About Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederacy and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery.

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