1039 deaths

Holy Roman Emperor

Dutch noble

thumb|Qajar Iran|Qajar-era miniature of the poets [[Ferdowsi, Unsuri, and Asjadi]] '''Abu'l-Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi' (; died 1039/1040) was a 10th–11th-century Persian poet. Unsuri is said to have been born in Balkh, today located in Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poet of the royal court of Mahmud of Ghazni, and was given the title Malik us-Shu'ara (King of Poets) under Mahmud. His Divan is said to have contained 30,000 distichs, of which only 2500 remain today. It includes the romance epic Vamiq u 'Adhra, which ultimately derives from the Ancient Greek novel Metiochus and Parthenop

Duke of Carinthia

German duke

Count of Mons

Frankish nobleman

Abbess of Gandersheim

Prince of Gwynedd

Moroccan writer

German count

Empress consort of Japan

chieftain of Nùng people, Vietnamese warlord

French count and roman catholic bishop of Auxerre

king of Ossory, King of Leinster

German bishop and saint