9th-century deaths

Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī () also known as Alfraganus in the West (870), was an astronomer in the Abbasid court in Baghdad, and one of the most famous astronomers in the 9th century. Al-Farghani composed several works on astronomy and astronomical equipment that were widely distributed in Arabic and Latin and were influential to many scientists. His best known work, Kitāb fī Jawāmiʿ ʿIlm al-Nujūmi (whose name translates to Elements of astronomy on the celestial motions), was an extensive summary of Ptolemy's Almagest containing revised and more accurate experiment

Kassia, Cassia, Kassiane, or Kassiani (, ; – c.865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant, most of which are stichera, though at least 26 have uncertain attribution. The authenticity issues are due to many hymns being anonymous, and others ascribed to different authors in different manuscripts. She was an abbess of a convent in the west of Constantinople.

9th century Byzantine historian, philosopher and writer

Sufi saint

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Grand Duke of Moravia

Cynewulf (, ; also spelled Cynwulf or Kynewulf) is one of twelve Old English poets known by name, and one of four whose work is known to survive today. He presumably flourished in the 9th century, with possible dates extending into the late 8th and early 10th centuries.

Bulgarian ruler

Al-Asmaʿi (, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb al-Aṣmaʿī ; –828/833), or Asmai was an Arab philologist and one of three leading Arabic grammarians of the Basra school. At the court of the Abbasid caliph, Hārūn al-Rashīd, as polymath and prolific author on philology, poetry, genealogy, and natural science, he pioneered zoology studies in animal-human anatomical science. He compiled an important poetry anthology, the ''Asma'iyyat'', and was credited with composing an epic on the life of Antarah ibn Shaddad. A protégé of Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi and Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala', he was a contemporary and

Arab historian (737–819)

Emperor of Angkor

Osburh or Osburga (also Osburga Oslacsdotter) was the first wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of King Alfred the Great. Alfred's biographer, Asser, described her as "a most religious woman, noble in character and noble by birth."

Byzantine empress

Byzantine empress, wife of Leo V

Prokopia (; c. 770 – after 813) was the empress consort of Michael I Rhangabe of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a daughter of Nikephoros I. The name of her mother is not known. Her only known sibling is Staurakios.

Irish teacher, Latin grammarian and scriptural commentator

8th-century Byzantine empress

Byzantine empress

king of Northumbria

Byzantine empress

King of Northumbria

9th-century Byzantine emperor

Byzantine philosopher, mathematician and logician

King of Mercia

Humfrid was the count of Barcelona, Girona, Empúries, Roussillon, and Narbonne from 858 to 864. He also bore the title margrave of Gothia (Gothiæ marchio), as he held several frontier counties.

daughter of Theophilos

king of Essex

Byzantine general

Byzantine empress

Mu'tazilite theologian and poet

Spanish noble

presiding prince of Iberia (modern Georgia)

French noble

Caesar of the Byzantine empire

Frankish nobleman

Eadburh (), also spelled Eadburg, (fl. 787–802) was the daughter of King Offa of Mercia and Queen Cynethryth. She was the wife of King Beorhtric of Wessex, and according to Asser's Life of Alfred the Great she killed her husband by poison while attempting to poison another. She fled to Francia, where she is said to have been offered the chance of marrying Charlemagne, but ruined the opportunity. Instead she was appointed as the abbess of a convent. Here she is said to have fornicated with an English exile. As a result, she was eventually expelled from the monastery and ended her days beg

politician (765-803)

Spanish count

Frankish count

French count

Frankish noble

Khurasani Arab noble and rebellion leader from 806 to 809

9th-century poet

9th-century Arab scholar, poet and grammarian

byzantine emperor from 868 to 879, son of Basil I

Duke of Friuli

margrave of Istria

Al-Kisā’ī (d. ca. 804 or 812) was a Persian polymath and founder of the Kufan School of Arabic grammar. He directly served caliph Harun al Rashid as the Abbasid court tutor for two future caliphs. He is also called one of the ‘Seven Readers’ of the seven canonical Qira'at.

Iraqi poet during abbasid era

Arsaber (, from Armenian Arshavir), was a Byzantine noble who attempted an unsuccessful usurpation of the Byzantine imperial throne in 808.

Frankish noble

Strojimir (; ) was the co-ruler of the Serbian Principality alongside his two brothers Mutimir and Gojnik, from ca 851 to his and Gojnik's deposition in the 880s after an unsuccessful coup against the eldest Prince Mutimir (r. 851–891).

Duke of Naples

Benedictine monk and writer

Shāriyah (, born in al-Basra; died c. 870 CE) was an ‘Abbasid qayna (enslaved singing-girl), who enjoyed a prominent place in the court of Al-Wathiq (r. 842–847).

astronomer, literary and linguist

Italian writer (9th century)

Patriarch of Alexandria

Abbasid Prince and heir presumptive (born c.789)