Who Was Alive

Were Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Abraham Lincoln alive at the same time?

Yes. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Abraham Lincoln were alive at the same time for 43 years, from 1809 to 1852.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was 39 when Abraham Lincoln was born.

Abraham Lincoln was 43 when Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington died, aged 83.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834

Born 1 May 1769 · died 14 September 1852, aged 83

Abraham Lincoln

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

Born 12 February 1809 · died 15 April 1865, aged 56

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  3. Napoleon
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Leo Tolstoy
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Abraham Lincoln 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.