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Literature
- Lady Murasaki writes The Tale of Genji in Japanese (approximate date).
- Beowulf is written anonymously(approximate date).
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Technology
- Eilmer of Malmesbury attempts flight in a glider of his own construction.
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Births
- May 30 — Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
- Benno, bishop of Meissen (d. 1106)
- King Bermudo III of León (d. 1037)
- Ali Ahmad Nasawi, (d. 1075)
- Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1041)
- Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg (d. 1088)
- Otto of Savoy (d. 1060)
- Adalbero of Würzburg, Bishop of Würzburg and Count of Lambach-Wels (d. 1111)
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Deaths
- John Curcuas, Byzantine catepan of Italy
- Ælfric of Eynsham, English abbot
- Aimoin, French monk and chronicler
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