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Events on Friday 5 September 1997 1
1910 – 1997Mother Teresa (1910-1997)Died 5 September 1997, aged 87Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta and devoted her life to caring for the poor and dying. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. She died just days after Princess Diana, and was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2016.