Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (b. 938)
Romanos II Porphyrogenitus (Greek: Ρωμανός, c. 937 – 15 March 963) was Byzantine Emperor from 959 to 963. He succeeded his father Constantine VII at the age of twenty-one and died suddenly and mysteriously four years later. His son Basil II the Bulgar slayer would ultimately succeed him in 976.