Who was alive in 890?

290 well-known people were alive in 890, 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
Formosus (816–896) — pope
Sergius III (860–911) — pope (860-911)
Leo VI (880–928) — pope
John X (860–929) — 10th-century pope
John IX (840–900) — pope
Theodore II (840–897) — pope (840-897)
Rudaki (859–941) — Persian poet, the father of Persian poetry
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (839–922) — Iranian scholar, historian and commentator on the Qur'an (839–923)
Henry I the Fowler (876–936) — King of East Francia (919–936); Duke of Saxony (912–936)
Charles the Simple (879–929) — King of West Francia
Oleg the Wise (845–912) — prince of Kiev
Olga of Kiev (890–969) — princess of Kiev, Orthodox saint (c. 890–925)
Mansur Al-Hallaj (858–922) — Persian mystic, poet and Sufi teacher (c.858–922)
Arnulf of Carinthia (850–899) — king of East Francia
Leo VI the Wise (866–912) — Byzantine Emperor
Robert I of France (860–923) — King of West Francia from 922 to 923
Edward the Elder (874–924) — king of the Anglo-Saxons (r. 899–924)
Simeon I of Bulgaria (863–927) — Bulgarian Tsar who ruled from 893 to 927
Al-Battani (858–930) — Islamic astronomer and mathematician (died 929)
Igor of Kiev (878–945) — prince of Kiev (877–945)
Photios I of Constantinople (820–900) — 9th Century Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Ahmad ibn Fadlan (879–) — 10th-century Arab traveller and ethnographer
Rollo (860–932) — 10th-century Viking and Count of Rouen
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 al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (873–935) — Muslim theologian (874–936)
Abu Isa at-Tirmidhi (825–892) — Islamic hadith scholar (824–892)
Conrad I of Germany (881–918) — king of East Francia
Rudolph of France (890–936) — king of France (890-936)
Berengar I of Italy (840–924) — Holy Roman Emperor from 915 to 924
Alexander (872–913) — Byzantine emperor from 912 to 913
Lambert II of Spoleto (876–898) — king of Italy, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke of Spoleto and Camerino (880-898)
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
al-Yaʿqubi (801–905) — 9th-century Arab geographer and historian
Ibn Khordadbeh (820–912) — Persian geographer and official (died 913)
Gorm the Old (877–958) — King of Denmark
Al-Mu'tamid (845–892) — Abbasid Caliph from 870 to 892
Al-Mu'tadid (854–902) — 16th Abbasid Caliph from 892 to 902
Louis the Blind (880–928) — Holy Roman Emperor from 901 to 905
Saadia Gaon (882–942) — rabbi, translator, Jewish philosopher and theologian (0882-0942) active during the Abbasid Caliphate in Egypt and Irak
Budai (850–916) — figure in Buddhist and East Asian religious traditions
Æthelflæd (870–918) — Mercian monarch
Taejo of Goryeo (877–943) — founder of the Goryeo Dynasty (877-943)
Ono no Komachi (825–900) — Japanese poet
Uda (867–931) — Japanese emperor
Álmos, Grand Prince of the Magyars (820–895) — kende or gyula of the Hungarians (fl. 9. century)
Yōzei (869–949) — Emperor of Japan
Giric (890–900) — Pictish king
Al-Nasa'i (829–915) — Persian Islamic scholar and collector of hadith (c.829–915)
Robert the Strong (866–900) — Frankish noble
Eochaid, son of Rhun (889–900) — King of Strathclyde; and/or King of the Picts
Ismail Samani (849–907) — Amir of the Samanid Empire from 892 to 907
Ordoño II of León (871–924) — King of Galicia and then Leon (c.873–924)
Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah (873–934) — Isma'ili Imam and Fatimid Caliph from 909 to 934
Daigo (885–930) — 60th emperor of Japan
Abū Ḥanīfa Dīnawarī (828–895) — Persian Islamic polymath (died 895)
Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi (844–912) — Emir of Córdoba from 888 to 912
Sugawara no Michizane (845–903) — Japanese poet
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (852–944) — Persian Muslim theologian (853–944)
Junayd of Baghdad (830–911) — Persian Islamic mystic and Sufi saint (830–910)
Saint Ludmila of Bohemia (860–921) — duchess of Bohemia
Ki no Tsurayuki (866–945) — Japanese writer
García I of León (870–914) — King of Leon (871-914)
Nennius (800–900) — Welsh monk and historian
Rastislav (820–) — Grand Duke of Moravia
Saint Naum (830–910) — Bulgarian writer & missionary
Svatopluk I (840–894) — ruler of Moravia
Judith of Flanders (844–) — queen consort of Wessex and countess of Flanders

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