870s births

thumbnail|200px|Postage stamp of the USSR, issued on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of Al-Farabi (1975) Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi (; – 14 December 950–12 January 951), known in the Latin West as Alpharabius, was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist. He has been designated as "Father of Islamic Neoplatonism", and the "Founder of Islamic Political Philosophy".

King of East Francia (919–936); Duke of Saxony (912–936)

king of the Anglo-Saxons (r. 899–924)

Byzantine emperor from 919/920 to 944

Muslim theologian (874–936)

King of Galicia and then Leon (c.873–924)

King of Leon (871-914)

King of Asturias, León and Galicia

'''Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Muktafī bi'Llāh (; 877/78 – 13 August 908), better known by his regnal name al-Muktafī bi-Llāh''' (), was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 902 to 908. More liberal and sedentary than his militaristic father al-Mu'tadid, al-Muktafi essentially continued his policies, although most of the actual conduct of government was left to his viziers and officials. His reign saw the defeat of the Qarmatians of the Syrian Desert, and the reincorporation of Egypt and the parts of Syria ruled by the Tulunid dynasty. The war

Zwentibold (Zventibold, Zwentibald, Swentiboldo, Sventibaldo, Sanderbald; – 13 August 900), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was the illegitimate son of Emperor Arnulf. In 895, his father granted him the Kingdom of Lotharingia, which he ruled until his death.

Lestek (also Leszek, Lestko) was the second duke of Polans, and son of Siemowit, born c. 870–880, mentioned in the oldest Polish chronicle, Gesta principum Polonorum by Gallus Anonymus. The dukes of Polans were the foundation of the Piast dynasty, the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland.

Duke of Bohemia

Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī ash-Shāmī aṭ-Ṭabarānī () (873/874–970/971 CE/260–360 AH), commonly known as at-Tabarani (), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and traditionist known for the extensive volumes of narrations he published.

10th-century Turkic scholar at Abbasid court

Papal mistress (c. 870 – 916)

noblewoman; Japanese poet

doge of Venice (872-939)

Count of Anjou

Duke of Aquitaine

Byzantine general

Countess consort of Flanders (877-929)

Spanish noble

Prince of Serbia

Queen of Germany, wife of Arnulf I

Abbasid Caliphate scholar

Margrave of Tuscany, Duke of Lucca (c.875–915)

Kharijite Amazigh (Berber) leader (c. 874–947)

Queen consort of the Franks

Chola king of South India

daughter of Louis the Stammerer; born c. 875

German noble

German noble

10th-century Samarkand Sunni-Hanafi scholar, judge and sage

Count of Poher

Saxon princess

Samonas (, 875 – after 908) was an Arab eunuch, who was captured by the Byzantines and became one of the most influential officials of the Byzantine Empire during the first decade of the 10th century.

Norwegian petty king (c. 877–c. 934)

877-917

King of Pagan dynasty of Burma

Muslim scholar and teacher during the Islamic Golden Age