after a 9-year reign. Otto II secures the election of the imperial chancellor and appoints John XIV as the 136th pope of the Catholic Church. Births Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo, Umayyad chief minister (d. 1009) Anthony of Kiev, Rus' monk and saint (d. 1073) Gunnlaugr Ormstunga, Icelandic poet (approximate date) Odo II, French nobleman and pretender (d. 1037) Wulfnoth Cild, Anglo-Norse nobleman (approximate date) Deaths March 26 – 'Adud al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Dynasty (b. 936) July 10 – Benedict VII, pope of the Catholic Church December 7 – Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 955) Aed Ua Dubhda, king of Uí Fiachrach (Ireland) Ælfhere, Anglo-Saxon ealdorman (approximate date) Antony III (the Studite), patriarch of Constantinople Ibrahim ibn Marzuban, ruler of the Sallarid Dynasty Minamoto no Muneyuki, Japanese nobleman and poet Minamoto no Shitagō, Japanese waka poet (b. 911) Mu'ayyad al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Dynasty (b. 942) References