1072 deaths

second sultan of the Seljuk Empire (1063–1072)

Byzantine emperor

Chinese poet, historian and statesman (1007–1072)

King of Leon and Castile

Italian bishop, antipope 1061–1064

King of Georgia

Persian poet

Archbishop of Bremen from 1043 to 1072

Sufi mystic

Duke of Saxony

'Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawazin Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī al-Naysābūrī (, ; 986 – 30 December 1072) was an Arab Muslim scholar, theologian, jurist, legal theoretician, commentator of the Qur’an, muhaddith, grammarian, spiritual master, orator, poet, and an eminent scholar who mastered a number of Islamic sciences. Al-Qushayri, combined the routine instruction of a Shafi'i law specialist and Hadith expert (muhaddith) with a solid slant to mysticism and ascetic lifestyle.

Stigand (died 1072) was an Anglo-Saxon churchman in pre-Norman Conquest England who became Archbishop of Canterbury. His birth date is unknown, but by 1020, he was serving as a royal chaplain and advisor. He was named Bishop of Elmham in 1043, and was later Bishop of Winchester and Archbishop of Canterbury. Stigand was an advisor to several members of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman English royal dynasties, serving six successive kings. Excommunicated by several popes for his pluralism in holding the two sees, or bishoprics, of Winchester and Canterbury concurrently, he was finally deposed in 1070,

11th-century noblewoman

Vietnamese Emperor

king of Leinster, King of Ireland with opposition

Bishop of Metz (1047-1072)

German clergyman and writer

Bishop of Exeter

Prince of Deheubarth

Count of Scheyern

Bulgarian aristocrat

Italo-Norman soldier of fortune

Abul-Mahāsin Abu Bakr Zaynuddin Azraqi () was an 11th-century poet who lived in Herat.

Roman Catholic bishop of Dalby