Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky were alive at the same time for 24 years, from 1840 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 31 when Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was 24 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

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russian composer

Born 25 April 1840 (Julian calendar) · died 25 October 1893 (Julian calendar), aged 53

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