Who Was Alive

Mother Teresa

Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary

Born 26 August 1910 · died 5 September 1997, aged 87

Who was alive at the same time as Mother Teresa?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Thomas Edison
  3. Sigmund Freud
  4. Marie Curie
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Vladimir Lenin
  7. Winston Churchill
  8. Joseph Stalin
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  10. Albert Einstein
  11. Pablo Picasso
  12. Charlie Chaplin
  13. Adolf Hitler
  14. Mother Teresa
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. John F. Kennedy
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Mother Teresa was born, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Vladimir Lenin was 40, Mahatma Gandhi was 40 and Leo Tolstoy was 81.

When Mother Teresa died, Barack Obama was 36, Donald Trump was 51, Michael Jackson was 39, Vladimir Putin was 44 and Ronald Reagan was 86.

Born during Mother Teresa’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche died 10 years before Mother Teresa was born, Mark Twain died months before Mother Teresa was born, Anton Chekhov died 6 years before Mother Teresa was born and Oscar Wilde died 10 years before Mother Teresa was born.

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All 1,355 contemporaries we track

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Bill Gates born 1955
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  32. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  33. Shakira born 1977
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Lionel Messi born 1987
  38. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  39. Bill Clinton born 1946
  40. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  41. Basshunter born 1984
  42. Angela Merkel born 1954
  43. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  44. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  45. François Hollande born 1954
  46. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  47. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  48. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  49. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  50. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  51. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  52. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  53. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  54. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  55. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  56. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  57. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  58. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  59. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  60. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  61. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  62. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  63. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  64. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  65. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  66. Elon Musk born 1971
  67. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  68. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  69. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  70. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  71. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  72. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  73. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  74. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  75. Lady Gaga born 1986
  76. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  77. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  78. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  79. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  80. Madonna born 1958
  81. Kamala Harris born 1964
  82. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  83. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  84. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  85. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  86. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  87. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  88. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  89. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  90. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  91. Xi Jinping born 1953
  92. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  93. Naruhito born 1960
  94. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  95. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  96. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  97. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  98. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  99. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  100. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  101. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  102. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  103. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  104. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  105. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  106. Bob Dylan born 1941
  107. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  108. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  109. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  110. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  111. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  112. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  113. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  114. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  115. Justin Bieber born 1994
  116. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  117. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  118. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  119. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  120. Taylor Swift born 1989
  121. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  122. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  123. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  124. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  125. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  126. Charles III born 1948
  127. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  128. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  129. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  130. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  131. Eminem born 1972
  132. Beyoncé born 1981
  133. Selena Gomez born 1992
  134. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  135. Leo XIV born 1955
  136. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  137. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  138. Narendra Modi born 1950
  139. Rafael Correa born 1963
  140. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  141. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  142. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  143. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  144. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  145. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  146. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  147. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  148. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  149. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  150. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945

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