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Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
duke and saint
Ælfweard of Wessex
West Saxon monarch
Berengar II of Italy
King of Italy from 950 to 961
Dunstan
Dunstan ( – 19 May 988) was an English bishop and Benedictine monk. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church. His 11th-century biographer Osbern, himself an artist and scribe, states that Dunstan was skilled in "making a picture and forming letters", as were other clergy of his age who reached senior rank.
Ramiro II of León
King of León from 931 to 951
Egill Skallagrímsson
Viking Age poet, warrior and farmer
Berthold
Duke of Bavaria
Bertha of Swabia
10th-century Queen of Burgundy and Italy
Gero
thumb|right|200px|14th-century wall painting depicting Gero in the church he founded at Gernrode
Fulk II, Count of Anjou
Count of Anjou
Alan II, Duke of Brittany
Duke of Brittany (c. 900–952)
Robert of Vermandois
count of Meaux, Troyes, Chalon (±946-966)
Æthelwold of Winchester
Bishop of Winchester; Abbot of Abingdon
Ibrahim ibn Sinan
Arab mathematician and astronomer
Majolus of Cluny
French abbot of Cluny (c.906–994)
Thankmar
thumb|The death of TankmaroThankmar (or Tankmaro, or Tammo) (c. 908 – 28 July 938) was the eldest (and only) son of Henry I of Germany (Henry the Fowler) by his first wife, Hatheburg of Merseburg. His mother had been previously married and widowed, after which she entered a convent. Because she left the convent to marry Henry, her second marriage was considered invalid and the couple split. Thankmar's legitimacy was, therefore, in question.
Conrad of Constance
Bishop and saint
Abu Tahir al-Jannabi
Ruler of the Qurmatian State
Gero
archbishop of Cologne
Raymond II of Rouergue
French noble
Godfrey, Count Palatine of Lotharingia
French noble
Guan Tong
Song Dynasty painter
Adaldag
thumb|Adaldag Adaldag (c. 90028 April 988; also Adelgis, Adelger, and Adalgag) was the seventh archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, from 937 until his death.
Parantaka I
Chola king
Sherira Gaon
10th century Gaon of the Academy of Pumbeditha
Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi
tenth-century Egyptian alchemist
Biagota
Biagota (born 920) was probably the wife of duke Boleslaus I of Bohemia, a member of the Přemyslid dynasty.
Al-Marzubānī
'''Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn 'Imrān ibn Mūsā ibn Sa'īd ibn 'Abd Allāh al-Marzubānī al-Khurāsānī''' () (c. 909 – 10 November 994), was a prolific author of adab, akhbar (news), history and ḥadīth (traditions). He lived all his life in his native city, Baghdad, although his family came originally from Khurāsān.
Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī
10th-century Persian grammarian of Arabic
John of Gorze
monk and diplomat
Empress Dowager Du
Song Dynasty empress dowager
Rasso
Saint Rasso of Andechs (also Rasso of Grafrath, Graf Ratt, Ratho, Grafrath, Rasso von Andechs) () was a Bavarian count and military leader, pilgrim, and saint. He was the count (Graf) of Dießen-Andechs, leading the Bavarians against invading Magyars in the tenth century. No contemporary Vita of Rasso has survived and various legends arose around his cult in the late Middle Ages. However, there is no reason to doubt that there existed a count named Rasso who fought against the Magyars in the 950s.
Nicodemus of Mammola
Christian saint
Lothar I. von Walbeck
German noble
Amr ibn Ya'qub
the seventh Saffarid king (912–913)
Li Shunxian
Persian-Sichuanese poet and concubine
Goto Muñiz
Galician queens consort
Muhammad ibn Salih al-Hashimi
abbasid chief Qadi (qadi al-qudat) from 973/4 to 975