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What Happened in May 988 AD

Famous Deaths

  • May 6 Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland
  • May 19 Dunstan, English Archbishop of Canterbury, Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, illustrator and silversmith (restored monastic life after era of Viking raids), dies at about 79 (canonized 1029)