Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and James Prescott Joule alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and James Prescott Joule were alive at the same time for 46 years, from 1818 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 9 when James Prescott Joule was born.

James Prescott Joule 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

James Prescott Joule

English physicist and brewer

Born 24 December 1818 · died 11 October 1889, aged 70

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