Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and James Clerk Maxwell alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and James Clerk Maxwell were alive at the same time for 33 years, from 1831 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 22 when James Clerk Maxwell was born.

James Clerk Maxwell was 33 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

James Clerk Maxwell

Scottish physicist

Born 13 June 1831 · died 5 November 1879, aged 48

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