1280 deaths

German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)

Pope from 1277 to 1280

King of Norway (1238–1280)

Mengu-Timur ( ) or Möngke Temür (; died 1280) was Khan of the Golden Horde, a division of the Mongol Empire, from 1266 to 1280. He was a son of Toqoqan Khan, himself the son of Batu, and Köchu Khatun of Oirat, the daughter of Toralchi Küregen and granddaughter of Qutuqa Beki.

Countess of Flanders (1202–1280)

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Mamluk Sultan of Egypt 1277-1279

Tibetan Lama (1235-1280)

Countess suo jure of Nevers (1247-1280)

politician and diplomat (1194-1280)

Duke of Athens in 1263

French noble

Polish explorer

'''Enni Ben'en (圓爾辯圓; 1 November 1202 – 10 November 1280) or simply Enni, also known as Shōichi Kokushi''', was a Japanese Buddhist monk. He started his Buddhist training as a Tendai monk. While he was studying with Eisai, a vision of Sugawara no Michizane appeared to him in a dream and told him to go to China and study meditation. Following this vision, he met the Rinzai teacher Wuzhun Shifan in China, and studied Mahayana with him. When he returned to Japan, after founding Jōten-ji temple in Hakata (Fukuoka), he founded Tōfuku-ji monastery in Kyoto, and practiced Zen as well as other types o

Chinese general

Count of Geneva

Japanese Buddhist monk

Italian nun

Japanese poet

Jewish philosopher

Sultan of Kedah

Persian mathematician and astronomer

Yuan dynasty politician

French rabbi