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{{Year nav|1002}} {{Year in various calendars|1002}} {{Year article header|1002}} [[File:Kronung Heinrich II.jpg|thumb|alt=King of Germany. |King of Germany.]] ==Events== * [[January 23]] &ndash; Emperor [[Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto III]] dies, at the age of 22, of [[smallpox]] at [[Civita Castellana|Castle of Paterno]] (near [[Rome]]) after a 19-year reign. He leaves no son, nor a surviving brother who can succeed by [[Heredity|hereditary]] right to the [[throne]].<ref>Reuter, Timothy (1992). ''The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III'', p. 259. {{ISBN|978-0-521-36447-8}}.</ref> Otto is buried in [[Aachen Cathedral]] alongside the body of [[Charlemagne]] ('''Charles the Great'''). == Births == * [[June 21]] &ndash; [[List of popes|Pope Leo IX]] (d. [[1054]]) * [[Adolf II of Lotharingia]] (d. [[1041]]) * [[Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi]], Sunni Muslim scholar and historian (d. [[1071]]) * [[George I of Georgia]] (possible date; d. 1027) * [[Mei Yaochen]], Chinese poet of the [[Song Dynasty]] (d. [[1060]]) == Deaths == * [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[980]]) * [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen]], assassinated * [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir|Al-Mansur]], [[Chief Minister|chief minister]] of the [[Umayyad Empire|Umayyad Caliphate]] of [[Córdoba, Andalusia|Córdoba, Spain]] * [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Henry I, Duke of Burgundy|Otto-Henry]], [[Duke of Burgundy]] (b. [[940s#946|946]]) * [[Ealdwulf (archbishop of York)|Ealdwulf]], [[Abbot of Peterborough]], [[Bishop of Worchester]] and [[Archbishop of York]] * [[Godfrey I, Count of Verdun]] * [[Gunhilde]], wife of [[Pallig]], killed in the [[St. Brice's Day massacre]] * [[John the Iberian]], Georgian saint (possible date) * [[Pallig]], Danish chieftain, Jarl of Devonshire, killed in the [[St. Brice's Day massacre]] * [[Rogneda of Polotsk]], wife of [[Vladimir I of Kiev]] before his conversion to Christianity * [[Sancho Ramírez of Viguera]] (possible date) * Tahir, son of [[Khalaf I]] * [[Udayaditya