990s births

Cnut ( ; ; – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. The three kingdoms united under Cnut's rule are referred to together as the North Sea Empire by historians.

pope

11th century Italian monk, inventor of modern musical notation

Founder of the Seljuk Empire (1037–1063)

King of Norway from 1015 to 1028

king of Poland (990-1034)

King of Pamplona and ruler of Aragon from 1004 to 1035

King of León

11th century empress of the Holy Roman Empire

Persian historian

Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Mūsā al-Khusrawjirdī al-Bayhaqī (, 994–1066), also known as Imām al-Bayhaqī, was a Sunni scholar widely known for being the foremost leading hadith master in his age, leading authority in the Shafi'i school, leading authority on the foundation of doctrine, meticulous, a devoted ascetic and one of the notable defenders of the Ash'ari school. Al-Dhahabi said: "Unequalled in his age, unrivalled amongst his peers, and the Ḥāfiẓ of his time."

Duke of Saxony (995-1059)

Duke of Brittany

medieval theologian (vers 990-1088)

Regent of Norway (c. 990–after 1036)

Doge of Venice (992-1032)

Duke of Lower Lorraine

Carinthian princess, founder of Catholic churches and monasteries, and saint

count of Bar and duke of Lorraine, co-reigning with his father from 1019

Bulgarian prince, Byzantine general

Armenian prince, linguist, scholar and public functionary

Duchess of Aquitaine, countess of Anjou (995-1068)

Prince of Polatsk

daughter of Thorgil Sprakling; wife of Godwin of Wessex

Spanish queen

Danish princess and Queen mother

Count of Mons

Queen consort of Poland

Norwegian historical chieftain

archbishop of Cologne

Breton noble

Spanish rabbi and lexicographer

wife of Edmund Ironside

Buyid amir of Iraq from 1027 to 1044

Kievan Russian monk

Norman Count

Norwegian chieftain

Italian noblewoman (c. 997-c. 1040)

abbot

Bishop of Mecklenburg

Italian bishop

daughter of a norse jarl