theologian (d. 649) Mirin, Irish monk and missionary (approximate date) Sisebut, king of the Visigoths (approximate date) Witteric, king of the Visigoths (approximate date) Yuan Leshang, empress of Northern Zhou Deaths November 14 – Justinian I, emperor of the Byzantine Empire Audoin, king of the Lombards (approximate date) Belisarius, Byzantine general ("Last of the Romans") Diarmait mac Cerbaill, High King (approximate date) Dorotheus of Gaza, monk and abbot (approximate date) Procopius, Byzantine historian (approximate date) Samson of Dol, bishop and saint (approximate date) Establishments Saint Catherine's Monastery in Mount Sinai, Saint Catherine, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt by Justinian I, which contains the oldest active library, being Ebla tablets (c. 2500–2250 BC) in the city of Ebla, Syria, discovered by Italian archaeologist Paolo Matthiae and his team in 1974–75, the first, if not the oldest, inactive library. References