730s births

Alcuin of York (; ; 735 – 19 May 804), also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin, was an Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York. At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 790s. Before that, he was also a court chancellor in Aachen. "The most learned man anywhere to be found", according to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne (–833), he is considered among the most important intellectual archit

Emperor of Japan

Bulgarian ruler

Duke of Benevento (734-787)

Bulgarian ruler

Tang Dynasty Chinese poet

Chinese painter (730-810)

8th-century Ispahbadh of Tabaristan

sixth Qaghan of the Second Turkic Khaganate

Frankish Benedictine monk

Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia

Byzantine saint

735-770

muslim writer

Turkish female hero

Chinese general

abbasid governor of Medina and Mecca (750)

minister

wife of caliph al-Mansur

abbasid governor of Medina and Mecca (750–758)