emperor of the Song Dynasty (b. 968) March 30 – Atenulf, Italian nobleman and Benedictine abbot June 28 – Notker III, German Benedictine monk and writer July 23 – Lei Yungong, Chinese palace eunuch and adviser August 15 – Nikephoros Phokas, Byzantine aristocrat September 2 – Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland November 20 – Bernward, bishop of Hildesheim December 2 – Elvira Menéndez, queen of León Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Twelver Shia theologian Arikesarin, Indian ruler of the Shilahara Dynasty Aziz al-Dawla, Fatimid governor of Aleppo Konstantin Dobrynich, mayor of Novgorod Moninho Viegas, French knight (b. 950) Olof Skötkonung, king of Sweden Rededya, leader of the Kassogians Sidi Mahrez, Tunisian scholar (b. 951) References