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Saint Wenceslas

Václav

Duchy of Bohemia

c. 907 – 935-09-28 (28 years old)

Revered Duke of Bohemia and eternal patron saint of the Czech nation, celebrated for devout piety and mercy, immortalized across the English-speaking world in the Christmas carol 'Good King Wenceslas'.

Prague, Czech Republic

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Science

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Ibn Wahshiyya

ابن وحشية

Iraq

c. 860 – c. 935 (75 years old)

Pioneering 10th-century agronomist and alchemist whose 'Nabataean Agriculture' preserved ancient Mesopotamian farming wisdom.

Kufa, Iraq

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Politics

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Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah

عبيد الله المهدي بالله

Syria

873 AD – 0934 (61 years old)

First Fatimid Caliph (909–934 AD) who overthrew the Aghlabids, proclaimed the Ismaili Caliphate at Raqqada, and founded the fortified naval capital of Mahdia on the central Tunisian coast in 916 AD.

Mahdia, Tunisia

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Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi

أبو جعفر الطحاوي

Egypt

c. 853 CE – 0933 (80 years old)

Eminent Egyptian Hanafi jurist and traditionist whose 'Al-Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah' is the most widely studied and accepted creedal summary across Sunni Islam.

Cairo, Egypt

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Science

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Abu Kamil

أبو كامل شجاع بن أسلم

Iraq

c. 850 – c. 930 (80 years old)

Groundbreaking 9th-century mathematician who expanded Al-Khwarizmi's algebra to solve quadratic equations and manipulate irrational quantities.

Baghdad, Iraq

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Sciences & Discovery

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Al-Battani (Albatenius)

أبو عبد الله محمد بن جابر البتاني

Turkey

c. 858 CE – 929 CE (~71 years old)

Great astronomer and mathematician of the Islamic Golden Age whose Kitab al-Zij corrected Ptolemy's calculations, measured the solar year to within 2 minutes, and replaced chords with trigonometric sines.

Harran (Şanlıurfa), Turkey

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King Tomislav

Kralj Tomislav

Historical Croatia

c. 880 – c. 928 (48 years old)

First crowned King of Croatia who united the Pannonian and Dalmatian duchies into a powerful medieval kingdom, defeating Hungarian and Bulgarian invasions, crowned by Pope John X in 925.

Knin, Croatia

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Tsar Simeon I

Симеон I Велики

Historical Bulgaria

c. 864 – 0927-05-27 (63 years old)

Mighty medieval emperor whose 34-year reign created the 'Golden Age' of medieval Bulgaria, expanding borders across three seas (Black, Aegean, and Adriatic) and making Preslav a center of Slavic culture.

Veliki Preslav, Bulgaria

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Al-Hasan I al-Hajjam

الحسن الأول الحجام بن محمد

Morocco

c. 890 – 927 (~37 years old)

Tenth Idrisid Sultan who raised a national liberation army in the Rif mountains and liberated the imperial capital Fez from Fatimid occupation in 925 AD.

Fez, Morocco

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Sciences & Discovery

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Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes)

أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى الرازي

Iran

865 CE – 27 October 925 (60 years old)

Chief physician of Baghdad Hospital who first clinically distinguished smallpox from measles, pioneered pediatric medicine, discovered ethanol distillation, and authored Kitab al-Hawi.

Rayy (Tehran), Iran

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Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari

محمد بن جرير الطبري

🌐 Tabaristan

c. 839 CE – 0923 (84 years old)

Peerless polymath, jurist, and historian whose 'Tarikh al-Tabari' (History of the Prophets and Kings) and monumental Tafsir form the bedrock of Islamic historiography and exegesis.

Baghdad, Iraq

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Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj

الحسين بن منصور الحلاج

Iraq

c. 858 CE – 0922 (64 years old)

Legendary Persian Sufi mystic, poet, and martyr whose ecstatic utterance 'Ana al-Haqq' (I am the Creative Truth) became the ultimate symbol of supreme mystical sacrifice.

Baghdad, Iraq

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Yahya IV of Morocco

يحيى الرابع بن إدريس بن عمر

Morocco

c. 870 – 917 (~47 years old)

Seventh Idrisid Sultan who reunited the fractured Moroccan principalities in 904 AD, acclaimed by chroniclers as the most just and pious Idrisid monarch.

Fez, Morocco

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Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i

أحمد بن شعيب النسائي

Iran

c. 829 CE – 0915 (86 years old)

Legendary Hadith master whose 'Al-Sunan al-Sughra' (Sunan an-Nasa'i) is renowned for its extraordinarily stringent standards of narrator criticism, rivaling Bukhari and Muslim.

Mecca (traditional site), Saudi Arabia

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Science

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Qusta ibn Luqa

قسطا بن لوقا البعلبكي

Lebanon

c. 820 – 912 (92 years old)

Celebrated 9th-century Melkite Christian physician and polymath from Baalbek who translated Diophantus, Euclid, and Heron of Alexandria into Arabic.

Yerevan, Armenia

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Junayd of Baghdad

الجنيد البغدادي

Iran

c. 830 – c. 910 (80 years old)

Revered as 'Sayyid al-Ta'ifa' (Master of the Sufis), 9th-century mystic who formulated 'sober Sufism', strictly harmonizing mystical experience with the Shariah.

Baghdad, Iraq

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Abu al-Qasim al-Junayd ibn Muhammad

الجنيد البغدادي

Iraq

c. 830 CE – c. 910 CE (80 years old)

Foundational architect of sober, orthodox Islamic Sufism whose teachings harmonized inner mystical annihilation (fana) and sobriety (sahw) strictly with the Quran and Sunnah.

Baghdad, Iraq

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Isa ibn Miskin al-Ifriqi

عيسى بن مسكين الإفريقي

Tunisia

829 AD – 908 AD (79 years old)

Legendary Chief Justice (Qadi) of Kairouan under the Aghlabids, immortalized in North African legal history for extreme personal austerity, refusal of gifts, and defending the poor against royal princes.

Kairouan, Tunisia

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