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Events
 January 23 – Emperor Otto III dies, at the age of 22, of smallpox at Castle of Paterno (near Rome) after a 19-year reign. He leaves no son, nor a surviving brother who can succeed by hereditary right to the throne.Reuter, Timothy (1992). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, p. 259. . Otto is buried in Aachen Cathedral alongside the body of Charlemagne (Charles the Great).

 Births 
 June 21 – Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
 Adolf II of Lotharingia (d. 1041)
 Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Sunni Muslim scholar and historian (d. 1071)
 George I of Georgia (possible date; d. 1027)
 Mei Yaochen, Chinese poet of the Song Dynasty (d. 1060)

 Deaths 
 January 23 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
 April 30 – Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen, assassinated
 August 8 – Al-Mansur, chief minister of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, Spain
 October 15 – Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
 Ealdwulf, Abbot of Peterborough, Bishop of Worchester and Archbishop of York
 Godfrey I, Count of Verdun
 Gunhilde, wife of Pallig, killed in the St. Brice's Day massacre
 John the Iberian, Georgian saint (possible date)
 Pallig, Danish chieftain, Jarl of Devonshire, killed in the St. Brice's Day massacre
 Rogneda of Polotsk, wife of Vladimir I of Kiev before his conversion to Christianity
 Sancho Ramírez of Viguera (possible date)
 Tahir, son of Khalaf I
 Udayadityavarman I of Khmer Empire

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