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Taira no Masakado
Japanese Heian period samurai (died 940)
Nicodemus of Mammola
10th-century Calabrian saint
Afonso II of Portugal
King of Portugal from 1211 to 1223
Kō no Moronao
Japanese samurai (died 1351)
Hosokawa Yoriyuki
Hosokawa samurai and government minister
Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana
Castilian politician
Taira no Masakado — Japanese Heian period samurai (died 940), who died on March 25 940.
Nicodemus of Mammola — 10th-century Calabrian saint, who died on March 25 990.
Afonso II of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1211 to 1223, who died on March 25 1223.
Kō no Moronao — Japanese samurai (died 1351), who died on March 25 1351.
Hosokawa Yoriyuki — Hosokawa samurai and government minister, who died on March 25 1392.
Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana — Castilian politician, who died on March 25 1458.
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