1061 deaths

pope

Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd-al-Ḥayy ibn Żaḥḥāk ibn Maḥmūd Gardīzī (), better known as Gardizi (), was an 11th-century Persian historian and official, who is notable for having written the Zayn al-akhbar, one of the earliest history books written in New Persian.

Dutch noble (1025-1061)

Egyptian Muslim physician

Duke of Bohemia

French cardinal, writer and diplomat

first documented member of the Hohenzollern dynasty

German noble

Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1044 to 1061

Chinese statesman, historian and poet (998–1061)

emir of the Taifa of Valencia

King of Vengi Chalukya

Adelmann (, , , , ; ?, – c. 1061, Brescia) was the bishop of Brescia, in Northern Italy, during the eleventh century. Adelmann seems to have become bishop there in 1050, and to have taken an active share in the church-reform movement of the period, especially against the clerical abuses of simony and concubinage.