809 deaths

5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)

Ludger (; also Lüdiger or Liudger) ( – 26 March 809) was a missionary among the Frisians and Saxons, founder of Werden Abbey and the first Bishop of Münster in Westphalia. He has been called the "Apostle of Saxony".

Arab Abbasid poet (750–809)

Chief of the Franks, first Count of Aragon

Seventh of the Isma'ili Shia Imams (740–813

Japanese shogun

King of Balhae

Ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla

Elfodd, Elvodug or Elfoddw ( or Elbodius; died 809) was a Welsh bishop. He is credited with inducing the Welsh church to accept the Roman computus for determining the date of Easter endorsed elsewhere in Britain at the Synod of Whitby in 664. This was after centuries of continuing the practice.

Abu Bakr Shu‘bah Ibn ‘Ayyash Ibn Salim al-Asadi al-Kufi an-Nahshali (, 95-193 AH/713-808 CE), more commonly known as '''Shu'bah''', is a significant figure in the history of Qur'an readings as well as a hadith narrator. Like Hafs, Shu'bah narrated one of seven conical readings of the Quran from Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud, though the reading of Hafs is more well known in the Muslim world today.

muhaddith

Ispahbadh of the Qarinvand dynasty