1040: * Muhammad Ibn Abbad Al Mutamid (died 1095), Arabic poet in Al-Andalus 1046: * Masud Sa'd Salman (died 1121), Persian 1048: * May 31: Omar Khayyám (died 1123), Persian polymath, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet * Mu'izzi (died 1125), Persian * Am'aq (died 1148), Persian that carried the title amir al-shu'ara ("Amir of poets")