Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Baháʼu'lláh alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Baháʼu'lláh were alive at the same time for 47 or 48 years, from 1817 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 7 or 8 when Baháʼu'lláh was born.

Baháʼu'lláh was 47 or 48 when Abraham Lincoln died, aged 56.

Abraham Lincoln

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

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

Baháʼu'lláh

Founder of the Bahá'í Faith

Born 1817 · died 1892, aged 74 or 75

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Baháʼu'lláh
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. Adolf Hitler
Abraham Lincoln and Baháʼu'lláh 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.