10th-century births

thumb|Statue of Ferdowsi in Tus by Abolhassan Sadighi Abolqasem Mansour bin Hassan Tusi (940–1025), better known by his pen name Ferdowsi, was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian-speaking countries. Ferdowsi is celebrated as one of the most influential figures of Persian literature and one of the greatest in the history of literature.

King of the English, Wessex dynasty

Holy Roman Emperor

Swedish king (945-995)

King of Sweden from c.995 to 1022

Prince of Kiev

10th century King of Alba (Scotland)

King of Alba

King of Scotland (971-997)

French noble woman and queens consort

Bulgarian ruler

Persian poet

Hungarian grand prince (931-972)

Italian priest, antipope from 997 to 998

Persian geographer and astronomer

921–955, Duke of Bavaria

Alp-Tegin, ( Alptegīn or Alptigīn) or Alptekin, was a Turkic slave commander of the Samanid Empire, who would later become the semi-independent governor of Ghazna from 962 until his death in 963.

King of Pamplona and Count of Aragon from 994 to c.1000

Countess of Flanders (968–987) and Queen of the Franks (996)

count of Luxembourg (as Henry I) from 998 and the duke of Bavaria (as Henry V) from 1004

Tsar of Bulgaria from 1015 to 1018

ruler of Córdoba (r. 1009-10, 1013-16)

Kievan Rus' princely saints (11th cent.)

Queen of the Franks from 996 to 1001

French Christian bishop, (960-1028 CE)

10th century Byzantine historian and hagiographer

Tsar of Bulgaria from 1014 to 1015

Dutch noble (ca. 932-988) (901-988)

Byzantine emperor

10th-century Fatimid military officer

Margrave of Austria from 994 to 1018

Byzantine emperor

Polish queen consort

Count of Barcelona, Girona and Ausona and Count of Urgell (died 994)

Vazul, or Vászoly, (before 997–1031 or 1032) was a member of the House of Árpád, a grandson of Taksony, Grand Prince of the Hungarians. The only other certain information about his life is that he was kept in captivity and blinded in the fortress of Nyitra (Nitra, Slovakia) in the last years of the reign of his cousin, King Stephen I of Hungary. Modern historians, including György Györffy, do not exclude that he had earlier been Duke of Nyitra. He is the forefather of nearly all Kings of Hungary who reigned after 1046.

Willigis (; ; 940 – 23 February 1011 AD) was Archbishop of Mainz from 975 until his death as well as archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Persian poet, first woman poet of Islamic period

Japanese poet

10th-century Queen of Burgundy and Italy

Icelandic explorer

French princess

Margrave of the Billung March fropm 936 to 973

Count of Blois from 940 to 975/7

Matsyendranātha, also known as Matsyendra, Macchindranāth, Mīnanātha and Minapa (fl. early 10th century) was a saint and yogi in a number of Buddhist and Hindu traditions. He is considered the revivalist of hatha yoga as well as the author of some of its earliest texts. He is also seen as the founder of the natha sampradaya, having received the teachings from Shiva. He is associated with Kaula Shaivism. He is also one of the eighty-four mahasiddhas and considered the guru of Gorakshanath, another known figure in early hatha yoga. He is revered by both Hindus and Buddhists and is sometimes rega

doge of Venice

Count of Burgundy (c. 958 – 1026)

Empress consort of Peter I of Bulgaria

Countess of Portugal

Duke of Swabia from 1012 to 1015

English bishop and saint

Duke of Italy

English monk

Chaplain to the Holy Roman Emperor

count of Anjou from 960 to 987

Mother of two Norwegian Kings

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Czech abbot (end of 10th century-1053)

Italian nobleman

Armenian historian

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