940s births

Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003

King of the Franks

Prince of Kiev

King of the English (r. 959–975)

Eadwig (also Edwy or Eadwig All-Fair, 1 October 959) was King of England from 23 November 955 until his death in 959. He was the elder son of Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu, who died in 944. Eadwig and his brother Edgar were young children when their father was killed trying to rescue his seneschal from attack by an outlawed thief on 26 May 946. As Edmund's sons were too young to rule he was succeeded by his brother Eadred, who suffered from ill health and died unmarried in his early 30s.

Swedish king (945-995)

High King of Ireland

Grand Prince of the Hungarians (c.940–997)

Chola Emperor

Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr, commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi or al-Muqaddasī,, meaning Jerusalemite, was a medieval Arab geographer, author of The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions and Description of Syria (Including Palestine).

Margrave of Austria from 976 to 994

Emperor of Japan

'''Abu Mansur Nasir ad-Din wa'd-Dawla Sabuktigin''' (; 940s – August-September 997) was the founder of the Ghaznavid dynasty, and amir of Ghazna from 977 to 997. Sabuktigin was a Turkic slave who was bought by Alp-Tegin, the commander of the royal guard of the Samanid dynasty. Alp-Tegin established himself as the governor of Ghazna in 962, and died a year later in 963. Afterwards, Sabuktigin built his prestige among other slave soldiers in Ghazna until he was elected by them as their ruler in 977.

10th-century Bohemian princess and Duchess consort of the Polans

Byzantine Empress

Count of Flanders (940-962)

Queen of Western Francia from 965 to 986

10th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician

monk and abbot of Fleury Abbey (c.945-1004)

Frankish noblewoman (945–1026)

10th-century Byzantine general

first Duke of Carinthia from 976 to 978, Duke of Bavaria from 983 to 985

Duke of Burgundy

Queen of Burgundy

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Bāqillānī (; 950 – 5 June 1013), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and polymath who specialized in speculative Islamic theology, jurisprudence, logic, and hadith. He spent much of his life defending and strengthening the Ash'ari school of theology within Islam. An accomplished rhetorical stylist and orator, al-Baqillani was held in high regard by his contemporaries for his expertise in debating theological and jurisprudential issues. Al-Dhahabi referred to him as "the learned imam, incomparable master, foremost of the scholars, author of many books, and example of a

chief architect of the Bagratuni kings of Armenia

10th century queen consort of England

Byzantine empress, daughter of Constantine VII

thumb|190px|Model of the Solar System and Earth movement ("planetarium") according to al-Sijzi '''Abu Sa'id Ahmed ibn Mohammed ibn Abd al-Jalil al-Sijzi (c. 945 - c. 1020, also known as al-Sinjari and al-Sijazi; ; Al-Sijzi''' is short for "Al-Sijistani") was an Iranian Muslim astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. He is notable for his correspondence with al-Biruni and for proposing that the Earth rotates around its axis in the 10th century.

Dutch noble

wife of the Caliph al-Hakam

Roman Catholic bishop, Benedictine monk

German aristocrat

early Faroese viking

Sunni Imam

noblewoman; poet

Margrave of Ivrea from 950 to 965

German count

Ghaznavid poet

Icelandic lawspeaker

Duchess consort of Normandy (c. 943–968)

German noble

10th century Andalusian Arab physician and pharmacologist

Abbess of Gandersheim from 956 to 1001

Galician saint

Vijayanandi or Vijayananda (c. 940, Benares (now Varanasi), India – c. 1010, India) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who made contributions to trigonometry.

10th-century Queen consort of Italy

Orkney peer