998 deaths

Persian mathematician and astronomer (940–998)

First Count of Luxembourg

Patriarch of Constantinople

Byzantine general and aristocrat

Byzantine monk

Buyid Amir

Italian noble

Japanese noble, statesman and calligrapher

karakhanid ruler

Abū Sulaymān, Ḥamd b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Khaṭṭāb Abū Sulaymān al-Khaṭṭābī, al-Bustī, commonly known as Al-Khaṭṭābī (), was a Sunni Islamic scholar from Sijistan. He is unanimously regarded as the leading figure in the sciences of Hadith and Shafi'i jurisprudence. He was widely considered to be one of the most intelligent and authoritative scholars of his time, renowned for his trustworthiness and reliability in transmitting narrations, and the author of a many famous works. Moreover, he was famously known as the man of letters, philologist, and lexicographer, as well as a master in poet

Korean politician and diplomat (942 - 998)

Liao Dynasty general