689 births

8th-century Qur'anic Scholar and Arab linguist

one of the transmitters of the seven canonical Qira'at (689–785)

Shiite narrator and jurist

(689–773), also known as Ryōben, was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Kegon sect, and clerical founder of the Tōdai-ji temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. He is popularly known as the . His life spanned the late Asuka period (538–710) to the early Nara period (710–794), a period associated with the establishment of Buddhism in Japan.