980s births

Ibn Sina ( – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.

pope

Byzantine empress regnant (984-1056)

Norman princess and mother of Edward the Confessor

grand prince of Kiev (978-1019)

German princess, Hungarian queen consort and Roman Catholic blessed

Frankish Queen

11th-century founder of the House of Savoy

Bezprym (Old [ˈbɛspʂɨm]; 986–1032) was the duke of Poland from 1031 until his death. He was the eldest son of the Polish king Bolesław the Brave, but was deprived of the succession by his father, who around 1001 sent him to Italy in order to become a monk at one of Saint Romuald's hermitages in Ravenna.

Dutch noble

Egyptian Muslim physician

Duke of Bohemia

French monk, historian, musical composer and successful literary forger

Margrave of Austria

Founder of the Habsburg Castle

Norman petty lord

French noble

Duke of Bohemia from 1002 to 1003

French nobleman; Count of Blois

Medieval Arab mathematician

Italian noble

monk

Duchess of Normandy

King of Croatia

Count of Provence

Duke of Carinthia

German-Italian saint and hermit

Count of Blois

Italian Roman Catholic saint

noble and politician from Norway (980-1050)

Icelandic poet

German noble

Song dynasty poet (987–1053)

Archbishop of Trier from 1016 to 1047

Italo-Norman military personnel

bishop of Cologne

died 990

Regelinda (; - 21 March ), also known as the "Smiling Polish woman", was a Polish princess from the Piast dynasty and Margravine of Meissen from 1009 until her death by her marriage to Herman I.

11th-century Twelver Shi'ite scholar

Swiss monk

Late 10th-century Polish prince

Norman adventurer

Song Dynasty prince

Anglo-Saxon royalty

archbishop of Mainz and theologian

Italian noblewoman

Grand Master of the Hotel de France

Viking warrior

empress of Đại Cồ Việt

Late 10th-century Polish prince