Jacques Cousteau & Mother Teresa

Did Jacques Cousteau and Mother Teresa live at the same time?

Yes. Jacques Cousteau and Mother Teresa lived at the same time for 87 years, from 1910 to 1997.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Jacques Cousteau · Mother Teresa · Born in 1910

Jacques Cousteau

Jacques Cousteau

Ocean explorer, pioneered scuba diving

Mother Teresa

Activism & Social Change

Missionary of Charity in Calcutta

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Jacques Cousteau

Mother Teresa

Jacques Cousteau

Exploration

Born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac

Died in 17th arrondissement of Paris

Mother Teresa

Activism & Social Change

Born in Skopje

Died in Kolkata

World Events During Their Overlap

1912 Sinking of the Titanic

1914 World War I begins

1917 Russian Revolution

1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins

1919 Treaty of Versailles signed

1920 League of Nations established

1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins

1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

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

1997 Dolly the Sheep cloned

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Sources

Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
Jacques Cousteau (Q83233) — Wikidata
Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
Mother Teresa (Q30547) — Wikidata