Who Was Alive

Were Percy Bysshe Shelley and Abraham Lincoln alive at the same time?

Yes. Percy Bysshe Shelley and Abraham Lincoln were alive at the same time for 13 years, from 1809 to 1822.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was 16 when Abraham Lincoln was born.

Abraham Lincoln was 13 when Percy Bysshe Shelley died, aged 29.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

British Romantic poet

Born 4 August 1792 · died 8 July 1822, aged 29

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