Who Was Alive

Were Carl Friedrich Gauss and Abraham Lincoln alive at the same time?

Yes. Carl Friedrich Gauss and Abraham Lincoln were alive at the same time for 46 years, from 1809 to 1855.

Carl Friedrich Gauss was 31 when Abraham Lincoln was born.

Abraham Lincoln was 46 when Carl Friedrich Gauss died, aged 77.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist

Born 30 April 1777 · died 23 February 1855, aged 77

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. Napoleon
  3. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Leo Tolstoy
Carl Friedrich Gauss 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.