1179 deaths

German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)

Grand Master of the Knights Templar

Queen Consort of Navarre

Norwegian noble

Queen of Navarre

Count of Aumale, Earl of York, and Lord of Holderness

eldest son of the Taira clan patriarch, Taira no Kiyomori

Central Asian Sufi leader (died 1179)

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

right|thumb|, from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu was a Japanese waka poet of the late-Heian period. One of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, and forty-one of his poems were included in imperial collections.

Noble of Jerusalem

Sultan of Kedah

-1179

thumb|Shunkan depicted on an 1887 vertical diptych. was a Japanese monk who, after taking part in the Shishigatani plot to overthrow Taira no Kiyomori, was exiled along with two others to Kikai-ga-shima. His story is featured in the Heike monogatari, and in a number of traditional derivative works, including the Noh play Shunkan and jōruri play Heike Nyogo-ga-shima. Twentieth century authors Kan Kikuchi and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa also produced works entitled Shunkan.

Bishop of Worcester

Sheriff of Essex, Chief Justiciar of England (1089-1179)

12th c. Hanafi Sunni theologian

Goryeo general (1106 – 1179)

Byzantine general and governor

Ly dynasty chancellor