Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Sully Prudhomme alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Sully Prudhomme were alive at the same time for 26 years, from 1839 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 30 when Sully Prudhomme was born.

Sully Prudhomme was 26 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

Sully Prudhomme

French poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901

Born 16 March 1839 · died 7 September 1907, aged 68

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