1248 deaths

Third Great Khan of the Mongol Empire

Subutai ( 1175–1248) was a Mongol general and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan. He ultimately directed more than 20 campaigns, during which he conquered more territory than any other commander in history as part of the expansion of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in human history. He often gained victory by means of sophisticated strategies and routinely coordinated movements of armies that operated hundreds of kilometers apart from each other. Subutai is regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in history, and the single greatest in M

spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Rumi

King of Portugal from 1223 to 1248

Andalusian Arab pharmacist, botanist, physician and scientist (1197–1248)

Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt 1238–1240

Duke of Brabant and Lothier from 1235

Bohemian Queen consort

Count of Burgundy

Almohad Caliph from 1242 to 1248

Russian Grand Prince

Duchess Consort of Burgundy

Count of Saint Pol and Blois

Polish noble

'''Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan 'Alī ibn Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn 'Abd al-Wahid al-Shaybānī (), called al-Qifṭī' (; – 1248), was an Egyptian Arab historian, biographer, encyclopedist and administrator under the Ayyubid rulers of Aleppo. His biographical dictionary Kitāb Ikhbār al-'Ulamā' bi Akhbār al-Ḥukamā'' (, tr. 'History of Learned Men') is an important source of Islamic biography. Much of his vast literary output is lost, including his histories of the Seljuks, Buyids and the Maghreb, and biographical dictionaries of philosophers and philologists.

Empress consort of Japan

Swedish prince

Anusapati, Anushanatha, or Anushapati was the second king of Singhasari, an Indianized Hindu kingdom in east Java between 1222 and 1248.

British noble

prince-bishop (fl. 12th century)

Finnish medieval bishop

12th-13th century Japanese poet

26th and last leader of Hafizi Isma'ilism

Iranian physician and cleric

samurai of the early and middle Kamakura period

court noble and poet in Kamakura period Japan

Scottish noble

Lord of Massino, Albizzate, Besnate and Cislago; Founder of the Visconti of Milan family

Lord of Béthune, Richebourg and Dendermonde

King of Mann and the Isles

Archbishop of Canterbury-elect; philosopher