989 deaths

first Duke of Carinthia from 976 to 978, Duke of Bavaria from 983 to 985

10th-century Byzantine general

Archbishop of Reims

Japanese noble

king of the Kingdom of Lori

thumb|Chavundaraya basadi (10th century) on Chandragiri Hill

Chinese Taoist sage

10th century poet, philosopher and scholar of al-Andalus

Glúniairn (died 989), in Old Norse Járnkné (, Irish for "Iron-knee"), was a Norse-Gael king of Dublin of the Uí Ímair kindred which ruled over much of the Scandinavianised and Norse-Gael parts of Great Britain and Ireland in the tenth century.

noblewoman; Song dynasty empress, wife of Song Zhenzong

Japanese courtier

King of the Isles

politician, Confucian and marquis of the Korean Goryeo dynasty (927 – 989)