Mother Teresa & Princess Diana

Did Mother Teresa and Princess Diana live at the same time?

Yes. Mother Teresa and Princess Diana lived at the same time for 36 years, from 1961 to 1997.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Mother Teresa · Princess Diana · Born in 1910 · Born in 1961

Princess Diana and Mother Teresa both died in 1997 — just days apart.

Diana died on August 31 and Mother Teresa on September 5; the two had met in 1992 and become friends.

Mother Teresa

Activism & Social Change

Missionary of Charity in Calcutta

Princess Diana

Activism & Social Change

People's Princess, humanitarian

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Mother Teresa

Princess Diana

Mother Teresa

Activism & Social Change

Born in Skopje

Died in Kolkata

Princess Diana

Activism & Social Change

World Events During Their Overlap

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

Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
Mother Teresa (Q30547) — Wikidata
Diana, Princess of Wales — Wikipedia
Princess Diana (Q9685) — Wikidata