970s births

Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)

norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)

Pope and ruler of the Papal States (c.972-999) (r.996-999)

11th-century king of Hungary and saint

Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054

king of the Franks from 996 to 1031

Byzantine Empress

Luxembourgian noble and saint (978–1039)

King of Burgundy from 993 to 1032

Japanese poet

Missionary archbishop and martyr

Catalan count, abbot and bishop (c.971-1046)

Countess consort of Barcelona, Girona and Osona (c.975/8-1058)

Count of Anjou

last Umayyad ruler in the Al-Andalus (1026-1031)

early count of the House of Savoy

Queen consort of Sweden

Prince of Tmutarakan and Prince of Chernigov

Father of Emperor Conrad II

duke of Carinthia from 1004

Leonese queen

Abbess of Vilich and Christian saint (c.970-c.1015)

Medieval noblewoman

Archbishop of Cologne

countess suo jure of Provence

French duke

Margrave of Lower Lusatia

Count of Toulouse

Queen consort of Pamplona

German noble

Italian nobleman

Byzantine military leader

Abbess of Gandersheim

11th-century Princess-abbess of Quedlinburg

thumb|Byrhtferth's diagram with the Four elements (earth, water, air, fire), seasons, solstices, equinoxes, signs of the zodiac and ages of man. An [[Ogham inscription is in the centre. Miniature from the twelfth-century English medieval manuscript MS Oxford St John's College 17, folium 7 verso. Copy from original about 1000 AD by Byrhtferth.]] Byrhtferth (; ) was a priest and monk who lived at Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire) in England. He had a deep impact on the intellectual life of later Anglo-Saxon England and wrote many computistic, hagiographic, and historic

Byzantine nobleman

Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin

Margrave of the Nordgau from 994 to 1004

Italian Marquess

Catalan Count of Cerdanya and Count of Berga (c.970-1050)

Emnilda (; – 1017), was a Slavic noblewoman and Duchess of Poland from 992 by her marriage with the Piast ruler Bolesław I the Brave.

German abbot

illegitimate son of Richard I, Duke of Normandy

10th-century French noble

Chinese painter (970-1052)

Moroccan writer

970-1049

Roman Catholic bishop

spouse of Emperor Zhenzong of Song

968-1022

French count and roman catholic bishop of Auxerre

Countess of Mons, Hugh Capet's daughter

Buyid Vizier (976/77–1031)

countess of Provence

German noble, (c. 970 – aft. 1036) daughter of Herbert of Wetterau and Irmtrud of Avalgau

970

Buyid Vizier from 1025/6 to 1041/2