965 deaths

pope

pope

thumb|An Arabic manuscript with the Diwan of Mutanabbi (Sharh Diwan Al-Mutanabbi), by the scribal scholar Abu-I-Tayyib Ahmad Ibn al-Hussain, c. 1300 AD, origin unknown Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī ( – 965 AD), commonly known as al-Mutanabbi (), was an Abbasid-era Arab poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, for whom he composed 300 folios of poetry. His poetic style earned him great popularity in his time and many of his poems are not only still widely read in today's Arab world but are considered to be proverbial.

Archbishop of Cologne

thumb|right|200px|14th-century wall painting depicting Gero in the church he founded at Gernrode

Duke of Burgundy

Hadith compiler

Byzantine admiral

10th century Chinese painter (903-965)

915-968

Emperor of Later Shu

Margrave of Ivrea from 950 to 965

Abbot of Cluny

king of Jinghai

Senior statesman