Who was alive in the 11th century

12 people and 9 events and eras

Events and eras

• Silk Road c. 130 BCE–c. 1450 CE
• Byzantine Empire 330–1453
• Middle Ages c. 500–c. 1500
• Islamic Golden Age c. 786–1258
• Viking Age c. 793–1066
• Battle of Hastings 1066
• Battle of Manzikert 1071
• First University 1088
• Crusades 1095–1291

People

• Ferdowsi 940–c. 1020, poet
• Erik the Red c. 950–c. 1003, explorer
• Ibn al-Haytham c. 965–c. 1040, physicist
• Leif Erikson c. 970–c. 1020, explorer
• Al-Biruni 973–c. 1050, scholar
• Murasaki Shikibu c. 973–c. 1014, novelist
• Avicenna c. 980–1037, philosopher and physician
• William the Conqueror c. 1028–1087, king
• Shen Kuo 1031–1095, polymath
• Omar Khayyam 1048–1131, poet
• Al-Ghazali c. 1058–1111, theologian and philosopher
• Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179, abbess