1141

Births 
 Malcolm IV, King of Scotland (d. 1165)
 Nizami Ganjavi, Persian poet (d. 1209) (Maybe 1140 or 1142)

 Deaths 

 February 11 – Hugh of Saint Victor, Saxon philosopher, theologian and mystic (b. c. 1078)
 February 13 – Béla II, King of Hungary and Croatia (b. c. 1109)
 April 12 or April 13 – Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia
 May – Aubrey de Vere II, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1062)
 June 10 – Richenza of Northeim, German empress (b. c. 1087/89)
 October 18 – Leopold, Duke of Bavaria (b. c. 1108)
 Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami, Persian Sufi writer, mystic and poet (b. 1048)
 Judah Halevi, Sephardi Jewish philosopher and poet (b. c. 1075)
 Alberich of Reims, Archbishop of Bourges (b. 1085)

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