(b. 968) June 7 – Berno of Reichenau, German abbot August 9 – Damasus II, pope of the Catholic Church November 11 – Adalbert, duke of Upper Lorraine (b. 1000) December 9 – Al-Biruni, Persian scholar and polymath (b. 973) Æthelstan of Abingdon, English abbot (or 1047) Cenn Fáelad Ua Cúill, Irish poet and Chief Ollam Humbert I, founder of the House of Savoy (or 1047) Jing Zong, Chinese empress of Western Xia (b. 1003) Mael Fabhaill Ua hEidhin, king of Hy Fiachrach Rainulf II (Trincanocte), Italo-Norman nobleman References