981 deaths

French saint, archbishop and missionary (c.910–981)

the 5th king of Goryeo (955–981, r. 975–981)

Italian noble

Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī (), widely known as al-Jaṣṣāṣ (; 370–305 AH/ 917–981 CE), was a leading Hanafi jurist and Qurʾān exegete in Baghdad of his time. Serving as the Mufti of Iraq, he is best known for authoring ''Aḥkām al-Qur'ān''.

Patriarch of Constantinople

king of Viguera

French noble

Chinese historian

arabic general commander of al-Andalus

shah of Shirvan

thumb|Portrait of Slavnik by Bartosz Paprocki, 1602. Slavník (died 981) was a Bohemian nobleman, and the founder of the Slavník dynasty.

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10th-century Yemeni Muslim saint

Song Dynasty prince