Jan 9 Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China and scholar-general in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, executed at 46 Oct 3 Dafydd ap Gruffyd, last monarch of Gwynnedd (North-Wales), dies 1282 Famous Deaths by Year 1284 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Car Crash Hanging Killed in Action Plane Crash Poisoning