2 – Yōzei, emperor of Japan (d. 949) Gung Ye, king of Hu Goguryeo (approximate date) Muhammad al-Mahdi, Muslim Twelver Shī‘ah Imām Deaths February 14 – Cyril, Byzantine missionary and bishop August 8 – Lothair II, king of Lotharingia (b. 835) September 8 – Ahmad ibn Isra'il al-Anbari, Muslim vizier September 18 – Wenilo, Frankish archbishop October 14 – Pang Xun, Chinese rebel leader November 20 (or 870) – Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia Al-Darimi, Muslim scholar and imam Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi, Muslim jurist (approximate date) Al-Jahiz, Afro-Muslim scholar and writer (or 868) Al-Mu'tazz, Muslim caliph (b. 847) Dongshan Liangjie, Chinese Buddhist teacher (b. 807) Dúnlaing mac Muiredaig, king of Leinster (Ireland) Ermentrude of Orléans, queen of the Franks (b. 823) Gundachar, count (or margrave) of Carinthia Leuthard II, Frankish count (or 858) Rothad of Soissons, Frankish bishop Shapur ibn Sahl, Persian physician Solomon, Frankish count (approximate date) Yu Xuanji, Chinese poet (or 868) References