888 deaths

Emperor of the Carolingian Empire (839-888) (r. 881-887)

9th-century Persian Hadith compiler

Emir of Córdoba from 886 to 888

9th-century king of Mercia

Saint Rimbert (or Rembert) (c. 830 - 11 June 888 in Bremen) was archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, in the northern part of the Kingdom of East Frankia from 865 until his death in 888. He most famously wrote the life of Saint Ansgar, the Vita Ansgari, one of the most popular hagiographies of the middle ages.

emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Ingelger (845 – 888), also called Ingelgarius, was a Frankish nobleman, who was the founder of the County of Anjou and of the original House of Anjou. Later generations of his family believed that he was the son of Tertullus (Tertulle) and Petronilla.

thumb|upright=1|Æthelswith in a thirteenth-century cartulary for [[Abingdon Abbey ]] Æthelswith (–888) was the only known daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex. She married King Burgred of Mercia in 853. The couple had no known children.

Peerage person ID=42739

King of Ossory in south-east Ireland

King of Dublin

King of Connacht

Warlord and military governor

Georgian prince

Archbishop of Canterbury

Chinese warlord

Military Officer