890s births

Æthelstan or Athelstan (; ; ; ; – 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first wife, Ecgwynn. Modern historians regard him as the first King of England and one of the "greatest Anglo-Saxon kings". He never married and had no children; he was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.

al-Masʿūdī (full name , ), –956, was a historian, geographer and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the "Herodotus of the Arabs". A polymath and prolific author of over twenty works on theology, history (Islamic and universal), geography, natural science and philosophy, his celebrated magnum opus The Meadows of Gold () combines universal history with scientific geography, social commentary and biography.

king of France (890-936)

Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris (c. 898–956)

Count of Normandy from 927 to 942

Marozia, born Maria and also known as Mariuccia or Mariozza ( 890 – 937), was a Roman noblewoman who was the alleged mistress of Pope Sergius III and was given the unprecedented titles senatrix ("senatoress") and patricia of Rome by Pope John X.

King of León

German queen consort and duchess consort of Saxony (895-968)

First Count of Flanders from 918 to 964

Prince of Serbia 927–960 (896-960)

Flodoard of Reims (; 893/4 – 28 March 966) was a Frankish chronicler and priest of the cathedral church of Reims in the West Frankish kingdom during the decades following the dissolution of the Carolingian Empire. His historical writings are major sources for the history of Western Europe, especially France, in the early and mid-tenth century.

Medieval Arab scholar

King of Vietnam

Founder of Buyid dynasty in Iran (c.891/2–949)

Mardavij (Gilaki/, meaning "man assailant"), also known as Mardavij the Great, was an Iranian prince, who established the Ziyarid dynasty, ruling from 930 to 935.

King of Galicia

Prince of Serbia (890-924)

10th-century Persian philologist and historian

10th-century Orthodox monk

physician of Ifriqiya

Northern Han emperor

count of Urgell

883-943

900-1000

Arab lexicographer, philologist and grammarian

Byzantine writer and orator

Abbot of Brogne (885-959)

German count

German noble

905-955

wife of Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang

wife of Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir