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Who was alive in 870?

294 well-known people were alive in 870, including Alfred the Great, Abu Bakr al-Razi, Farabi. Here are the 80 most notable:

• Alfred the Great (849–899) — king of Wessex (r. 872–901)
• Abu Bakr al-Razi (866–925) — Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
• Farabi (870–951) — 10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
• Charles the Bald (823–877) — King of West Francia from 843 to 877 and Carolingian Emperor from 875 to 877
• Al-Kindi (801–870) — Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
• Muḥammad ibn Ismaeel al-Bukhārī (810–870) — Persian Islamic scholar (810-870)
• John VIII (820–882) — Head of the Catholic Church from 872 to 882
• Adrian II (792–872) — pope
• Formosus (816–896) — pope
• Sergius III (860–911) — pope (860-911)
• Marinus I (830–884) — pope
• John X (860–929) — 10th-century pope
• John IX (840–900) — pope
• Anastasius III (801–) — pope
• Theodore II (840–897) — pope (840-897)
• Charles the Fat (839–888) — Emperor of the Carolingian Empire (839-888) (r. 881-887)
• Rudaki (859–941) — Persian poet, the father of Persian poetry
• Rurik (830–879) — Varangian chieftain (c. 830-879)
• Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj (821–875) — Arab Muslim hadith scholar (821–875)
• Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (839–922) — Iranian scholar, historian and commentator on the Qur'an (839–923)
• Oleg the Wise (845–912) — prince of Kiev
• Johannes Scotus Eriugena (800–877) — Irish Catholic philosopher and theologian (c. 800 – c. 877)
• Mansur Al-Hallaj (858–922) — Persian mystic, poet and Sufi teacher (c.858–922)
• Louis the German (806–876) — King of East Francia from 843 to 876
• Arnulf of Carinthia (850–899) — king of East Francia
• Leo VI the Wise (866–912) — Byzantine Emperor
• Basil I (811–886) — Byzantine emperor from 867 to 886
• Robert I of France (860–923) — King of West Francia from 922 to 923
• Louis the Stammerer (846–879) — King of West Francia from 877 to 879
• Simeon I of Bulgaria (863–927) — Bulgarian Tsar who ruled from 893 to 927
• Louis II of Italy (825–875) — Ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 844 to 875
• Al-Battani (858–930) — Islamic astronomer and mathematician (died 929)
• Abbas Ibn Firnas (810–887) — 9th century astronomer and physician
• Photios I of Constantinople (820–900) — 9th Century Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
• Louis III of France (863–882) — King of France
• Rollo (860–932) — 10th-century Viking and Count of Rouen
• Carloman II of France (866–884) — King of West Francia from 879 to 884
• Árpád (845–907) — Grand Prince of the Hungarians
• Harald Fairhair (851–933) — King of Norway
• Romanos I Lekapenos (870–948) — Byzantine emperor from 919/920 to 944
• Ingólfr Arnarson (848–910) — Viking settler of Iceland
• Thābit ibn Qurra (836–901) — Mesopotamian astronomer and mathematician
• Abu Isa at-Tirmidhi (825–892) — Islamic hadith scholar (824–892)
• Æthelred I (847–871) — King of Wessex (r. 865–871)
• Berengar I of Italy (840–924) — Holy Roman Emperor from 915 to 924
• Carloman of Bavaria (830–880) — King of Bavaria from 876 to 879
• Áed mac Cináeda (840–878) — King of the Picts
• Abu Dawud al-Sijistani (817–888) — 9th-century Persian Hadith compiler
• Causantín mac Cináeda (836–876) — Scottish king
• Alfonso III of Asturias (852–910) — Spanish King
• Guy III of Spoleto (855–894) — Holy Roman Emperor from 891 to 894
• Muhammad al-Mahdi (869–) — twelfth and last Imam in Shia Twelver of Islam
• Al-Baladhuri (820–892) — Abbasid-era Muslim historian (820-892)
• Boris I of Bulgaria (827–907) — Bulgarian ruler
• Donald II of Scotland (862–900) — King of Scotland
• Clement of Ohrid (840–916) — medieval Bulgarian scholar
• Fatima al-Fihriya (800–880) — Legendary founder of the al-Qarawiyyin mosque
• al-Yaʿqubi (801–905) — 9th-century Arab geographer and historian
• Constantine II of Scotland (801–) — 10th-century king of Scotland (Alba)
• Ibn Khordadbeh (820–912) — Persian geographer and official (died 913)
• Al-Mu'tamid (845–892) — Abbasid Caliph from 870 to 892
• Hasan al-Askari (845–874) — eleventh of the Twelve Shia Imams
• Al-Mu'tadid (854–902) — 16th Abbasid Caliph from 892 to 902
• Ibn Majah (824–886) — Persian Hadith compiler (824–886)
• Budai (850–916) — figure in Buddhist and East Asian religious traditions
• Æthelflæd (870–918) — Mercian monarch
• Ono no Komachi (825–900) — Japanese poet
• Louis III the Younger (835–882) — King of East Francia
• Uda (867–931) — Japanese emperor
• Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787–886) — Persian astrologer and philosopher (787–886)
• Álmos, Grand Prince of the Magyars (820–895) — kende or gyula of the Hungarians (fl. 9. century)
• Al-Muhtadi (825–870) — 14th Abbasid Caliph (r. 869–870)
• Ibn Qutaybah (828–889) — Persian jurist and scholar (c.828-889)
• Yōzei (869–949) — Emperor of Japan
• Al-Nasa'i (829–915) — Persian Islamic scholar and collector of hadith (c.829–915)
• Kōkō (830–887) — Emperor of Japan
• Robert the Strong (866–900) — Frankish noble
• Hunayn ibn Ishaq (808–873) — Arab Christian scholar, physician and scientist (809–873)
• Muhammad I of Córdoba (823–886) — Emir of Córdoba from 852 to 886
• Ismail Samani (849–907) — Amir of the Samanid Empire from 892 to 907

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