Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Dmitri Mendeleev alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Dmitri Mendeleev were alive at the same time for 31 years, from 1834 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 24 when Dmitri Mendeleev was born.

Dmitri Mendeleev was 31 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

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist

Born 27 January 1834 (Julian calendar) · died 20 January 1907 (Julian calendar), aged 72

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