Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Ivan Turgenev alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Ivan Turgenev were alive at the same time for 46 years, from 1818 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 9 when Ivan Turgenev was born.

Ivan Turgenev was 46 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

Ivan Turgenev

Russian writer

Born 28 October 1818 (Julian calendar) · died 22 August 1883 (Julian calendar), aged 64

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