1143 deaths

Pope of the Catholic Church (1130–1143)

Byzantine Emperor from 1118 to 1144

Count of Anjou (r. 1109-1129) and the King of Jerusalem (r.1131-1143)

English monk and chronicler (c.1095 – c.1143)

5th Almoravid king

founder of the Western Liao dynasty, or the Kara-Khitan Khanate

Duchess of Swabia

French noble

Margravine consort of Austria and Tuscany and Duchess consort of Saxony and Bavaria (1115-1143)

German nobleman

German countess

Seljuk sultan (1131–1132)

Patriarch of Constantinople

chronicler

Persian poet

Prince of Deheubarth

Consul of Genoa, Father of Grimaldo Canella

thumb|Kakuban sculpture (Mitsugon-dō), Oku-no-in, Kōya-san thumb|Mausoleum of Kakuban in Negoro-ji Kakuban (覚鑁/覺鑁; 1095–1143), known posthumously as Kōgyō-Daishi (興教大師) was a priest of the Shingon sect of Buddhism in Japan and credited as a reformer, though his efforts also led to a schism between and . Kakuban is also famous for his introduction of the "esoteric nembutsu".

English noble

Burgrave of Nuremberg