October 5- Ōtomo no Yakamochi, Japanese statesman and poet, Shōgun November 8 – Sawara, Japanese prince Al-Rabi' ibn Yunus, Muslim minister (or 786) Fujiwara no Tanetsugu, Japanese nobleman (b. 737) K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat, king of Quiriguá (Guatemala) Li Huaiguang, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 729) Liu Changqing, Chinese poet (b. 709) Liu Congyi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 742) Liu Peng, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 727) Máel Dúin mac Fergusa, king of Brega (Ireland) Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi, Muslim Caliph Ruaidrí mac Fáeláin, king of Leinster (Ireland) Seondeok, king of Silla (Korea) Talorgan II, king of the Picts Tatzates, Byzantine general Theophilus of Edessa, Greek astrologer (b. 695) Yan Zhenqing, Chinese calligrapher (b. 709) Zhu Tao, general of the Tang Dynasty References Sources