1020
Year 1020 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.Events
By place
Births
- Almodis de la Marche, French noblewoman
- Beatrice of Bar, French duchess and regent
- Benno II, German bishop and architect
- Bernard of Menthon, French priest and saint
- Conrad I, duke of Bavaria
- Filarete of Calabria, Sicilian saint
- Gonzalo Sánchez, Spanish nobleman
- Gunhilda of Denmark, German queen
- Guo Xi, Chinese landscape painter
- Hallvard Vebjørnsson, Norwegian saint
- Kunigunde of Altdorf, German noblewoman
- Maria of Gaeta, Italian noblewoman
- Osbern Giffard, Norman nobleman
- Otto of Nordheim, duke of Bavaria
- Stephen IX, pope of the Catholic Church
- Su Song, Chinese statesman and scientist
- Sweyn Godwinson, English nobleman
- Vladimir Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev
- William I, count of Burgundy
- William Busac, English nobleman
- William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford
- William of Poitiers, French priest and writer
- Wulfhild of Norway, duchess consort of Saxony
- Zhang Zai, Chinese philosopher and cosmologist
Deaths
- June 12 - Lyfing, archbishop of Canterbury
- June 15 - Dattus, Lombard rebel leader
- August 16 - Zhou Huaizheng, Chinese eunuch
- Al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad, Muslim imam
- Al-Sijzi, Persian mathematician
- Bernard I, Spanish nobleman
- Bouchard II, French nobleman
- Einar Sigurdsson, Norse Viking nobleman
- Ferdowsi, Persian poet and author
- Gagik I, king of Bagratid Armenia
- Gerald I, French nobleman
- Gojslav, king of Croatia
- Leif Ericson, Norse Viking explorer
- Melus of Bari, Lombard nobleman and rebel leader
- Radim Gaudentius, Polish archbishop
- Stephen I of Vermandois, French nobleman
- Trdat the Architect, Armenian chief architect
