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Æthelbald
King of Wessex
Halfdan the Black
ninth-century king of Vestfold
Guy I of Spoleto
Duke of Spoleto from 842 to 860

Al-Duri
Abu ‘Amr Hafs Ibn ‘Umar Ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Baghdadi, better known as Al-Duri (767-860 CE; 150-246 AH), was a significant figure in the transmission of the Qira'at, or methods of reciting the Qur'an. Of the seven canonical reciters, al-Duri was a transmitter for two entirely separate methods: that of Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala' and that of Al-Kisa'i. He was a direct disciple of the latter and an indirect disciple of the former due to a generational gap. al-Duri transmits Abu 'Amr's recitation through Abu Muhammad Yahya ibn al-Mubarak ibn a-Mughirah al-Yazidi (d. 202 AH). Learned men were said to ha

Athanasia of Egina
9th‑century Byzantine Christian abbess and saint from Aegina
'Anbasah ibn Ishaq al-Dabbi
provincial Abbasid governor
al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm al-Rassī
Zaydi Shia imam (785-860)
Govindasvāmi
Govindasvāmi (or Govindasvāmin, Govindaswami) (c. 800 – c. 860) was an Indian mathematical astronomer most famous for his Bhashya, a commentary on the Mahābhāskarīya of Bhāskara I, written around 830. The commentary contains many examples illustrating the use of a Sanskrit place-value system and the construction of a sine table.
Abbo of Auxerre
Bishop of Auxerre
Ceccardus of Luni
Italian Roman Catholic bishop and saint
Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb
Iraqi historian, writer and linguist