Vietnamese chieftain of Nong Ruben I, Armenian prince (approximate date) Rudolf of Rheinfelden, duke of Swabia (d. 1080) Simon I, French nobleman (approximate date) Tora Torbergsdatter, Norwegian Viking queen William VIII, French nobleman (approximate date) Deaths April 25 – Fujiwara no Seishi, Japanese empress consort (b. 972) May – Musharrif al-Dawla, Buyid emir of Iraq (b. 1003) June 17 – Bolesław I the Brave, king of Poland (b. 967) August 10 – Burchard of Worms, German bishop and writer August 11 – Kanshi, Japanese princess consort c. August 30 – Fujiwara no Kishi, Japanese crown princess, posthumously named empress, mother of Emperor Go-Reizei (b. 1007) September 17 – Hugh Magnus, king of France (b. 1007) September 29 – Louis I, count of Chiny and Verdun November Koshikibu no Naishi, Japanese waka poet and lady-in-waiting (b. c.999) Matilda, countess palatine of Lotharingia (b. 979) December 15 – Basil II, Byzantine emperor (b. 958) December 22 – Wang Qinruo, Chinese chancellor December – Eustathius of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad, Muslim theologian (b. 935) Mhic Mac Comhaltan Ua Cleirigh, Irish king Sabur ibn Ardashir, Persian statesman (b. 942) Watanabe no Tsuna, Japanese samurai (b. 953) References