Who Was Alive

Were Mary Shelley and Abraham Lincoln alive at the same time?

Yes. Mary Shelley and Abraham Lincoln were alive at the same time for 41 years, from 1809 to 1851.

Mary Shelley was 11 when Abraham Lincoln was born.

Abraham Lincoln was 41 when Mary Shelley died, aged 53.

Mary Shelley

English writer

Born 30 August 1797 · died 1 February 1851, aged 53

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. Mary Shelley
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Leo Tolstoy
Mary Shelley 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.