Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Fyodor Dostoyevsky alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Fyodor Dostoyevsky were alive at the same time for 43 years, from 1821 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 12 when Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was 43 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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Russian novelist

Born 30 October 1821 (Julian calendar) · died 28 January 1881 (Julian calendar), aged 59

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Albert Einstein
Abraham Lincoln and Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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.