(approximate date) Yang Jian, imperial prince of the Sui Dynasty (d. 618) Yuchi Gong, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 658) Khalid Ibn Al-Walid, general of the rashidun Caliphate (d. 642) Deaths April 13 – Hermenegild, Visigothic prince (or 586) September 14 – Bidatsu, emperor of Japan (b. 538) Cassiodorus, Roman statesman and writer (approximate date) Frithuwald, king of Bernicia (approximate date) Gundoald, Merovingian usurper king (approximate date) John of Ephesus, Armenian bishop (approximate date) Rigunth, daughter of Chilperic I (b. 570) Xiao Ming Di, emperor of the Liang Dynasty (b. 542) References