865 deaths

King of Wessex

Ansgar (8 September 801 – 3 February 865), also known as Anskar, Saint Ansgar, Saint Anschar or Oscar, was Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen in the northern part of the Kingdom of the East Franks. Ansgar became known as the "Apostle of the North" because of his travels and the See of Hamburg received the missionary mandate to bring Christianity to Northern Europe.

French monk

9th-century Byzantine military leader and aristocrat

French count

9th-century Byzantine Christian saint (810-867) (c.810-867)

9th century Benedictine monk and historian

Chinese calligrapher and politician

Chinese Zen Buddhist monk

governor of Egypt from 822 to 826 (died 865)