640s births

Umayyad caliph from 685 to 705

Arab military commander provincial governor (640-716)

Visigothic king

Emperor of Japan

Erwig (; after 642 – 687) was a king of the Visigoths in Hispania (680–687).

Syriac Bishop of Edessa (c.640-708)

bishop of Sens

official of the Tang Dynasty

Japanese princess during the Asuka Period

thumb Cumianus ( 641 – 736) was an Irish monk who became abbot of San Colombano di Bobbio around 715. He left Ireland as an old man. The intricately carved lid of his sarcophagus, containing a lengthy epitaph, was made by one Master John and commissioned by King Liutprand, King of the Lombards.