Carl Sagan & Mother Teresa

Did Carl Sagan and Mother Teresa live at the same time?

Yes. Carl Sagan and Mother Teresa lived at the same time for 62 years, from 1934 to 1996.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Carl Sagan · Mother Teresa · Born in 1934 · Born in 1910

Carl Sagan

Science & Invention

Cosmos, pale blue dot, science communicator

Mother Teresa

Activism & Social Change

Missionary of Charity in Calcutta

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Carl Sagan

Mother Teresa

Carl Sagan

Science & Invention

Born in Brooklyn

Died in Seattle

Mother Teresa

Activism & Social Change

Born in Skopje

Died in Kolkata

World Events During Their Overlap

1936 Spanish Civil War begins

1939 World War II begins

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy

1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends

1945 United Nations founded

1947 India and Pakistan gain independence

1948 State of Israel established

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted

1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed

1950 Korean War begins

1953 Watson and Crick discover DNA structure

1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957 Sputnik launched; Space Age begins

1959 Cuban Revolution; Castro takes power

1961 Berlin Wall constructed

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

1963 Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

1964 Civil Rights Act signed in the United States

1969 Apollo 11: first humans walk on the Moon

1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and independence

1973 1973 oil crisis

1975 Fall of Saigon; Vietnam War ends

1979 Iranian Revolution

1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster

1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall

1989 Tiananmen Square protests

1990 Nelson Mandela released from prison

1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union

1994 Rwandan genocide

1994 End of apartheid; South Africa holds first free elections

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Sources

Carl Sagan — Wikipedia
Carl Sagan (Q410) — Wikidata
Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
Mother Teresa (Q30547) — Wikidata