Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Henry Huxley alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Henry Huxley were alive at the same time for 39 years, from 1825 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 16 when Thomas Henry Huxley was born.

Thomas Henry Huxley was 39 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

Thomas Henry Huxley

British biologist and comparative anatomist

Born 4 May 1825 · died 29 June 1895, aged 70

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