940s deaths

Rudaki (also spelled Rodaki; ; – 940/41) was a poet, singer, and musician who is regarded as the first major poet to write in New Persian. A court poet under the Samanids, he reportedly composed more than 180,000 verses, yet only a small portion of his work has survived, most notably parts of his versification of the Kalila wa-Dimna, a collection of Indian fables.

Abbasid vizier and calligrapher

Bulgarian hermit (876–946)

10th-century Turkic scholar at Abbasid court

Byzantine emperor

10th century Arabic Christian historian

10th-century King of Gwynedd in Wales

German noble

viking leader who ruled Northumbria in the 10th century

wife of Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir