Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman were alive at the same time for 45 years, from 1819 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 10 when Walt Whitman was born.

Walt Whitman was 45 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

Walt Whitman

American poet, essayist and journalist

Born 31 May 1819 · died 26 March 1892, aged 72

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