940
Year 940 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.Events
By place
Europe
Literature
Births
- June 10 - Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer
- Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu, Syrian physician and scientist
- Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Persian astronomer and mathematician
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Persian mathematician and physicist
- Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou, French queen and regent
- Al-Baqillani, Muslim theologian and jurist
- Baldwin III, Frankish nobleman
- Chavundaraya, Indian general, architect and poet
- Damian Dalassenos, Byzantine governor
- Eadwig, king of England
- Ferdowsi, Persian poet and author
- George El Mozahem, Egyptian martyr and saint
- Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians
- Guy, margrave of Ivrea
- Henry III, duke of Bavaria
- Leopold I, margrave of Austria
- Lothair I, margrave of the Nordmark
- Notker of Liège, French bishop and prince-bishop
- Subh of Córdoba, mother and regent of Hisham II
- Thorgeir Ljosvetningagodi, Icelandic lawspeaker
- Vijayanandi, Indian mathematician and astronomer
- Willigis, German archchancellor and archbishop
- Wulfhilda of Barking, English nun and abbess
Deaths
- March 25 - Taira no Masakado, Japanese nobleman and samurai
- May 12 - Eutychius, patriarch of Alexandria
- June 7 - Qian Hongzun, heir apparent of Wuyue
- July 4 - Wang Jianli, Chinese general
- July 20 - Ibn Muqla, Abbasid vizier and calligrapher
- August 5 - Li Decheng, Chinese general
- September 30 - Fan Yanguang, Chinese general
- November 8 - Yao Yi, Chinese chancellor
- November 14 - Abu'l-Fadl al-Bal'ami, Samanid vizier
- December 23 - Ar-Radi, Abbasid caliph
- December 25 - Makan ibn Kaki, Daylamite warlord
- Atenulf II, prince of Benevento and Capua
- Faelan mac Muiredach, king of Leinster
- Ibn Abd Rabbih, Moorish writer and poet
- Rajyapala, emperor of the Pala Dynasty
- Yang Lian, crown prince of Wu
- Zhao Guangyi, Chinese official and chancellor
