290s BC - Deaths

Deaths

  • 299 BC – Titus Manlius Torquatus, Roman Consul.
  • 297 BC
    • Chandragupta Maurya, Emperor of the Maurya Empire in India, r. 322–298 BC (approximate date)
    • Cassander, King of Macedon, r. 305–297 BC.
    • Philip IV, king of Macedon r. 297 BC
  • 295 BC
    • Thessalonica of Macedon, Macedonian Queen
    • Publius Decius Mus, Roman consul
    • Zhuangzi, Chinese philosopher
    • King Wuling of Zhao, king of the Chinese State of Zhao
    • Gellius Egnatius, leader of the Samnites during the Third Samnite War
  • 294 BC
    • Alexander V, king of Macedon, r. 297–294 BC.
    • Marsyas of Pella, historian
  • 291 BC
    • Menander, Athenian dramatist
    • Dinarchus of Athens, logographer (speech writer)
  • 290 BC
    • Autolycus of Pitane, astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
    • Megasthenes, Greek traveller and geographer (approximate date)
    • Onesicritus of Astypalaia, historical writer

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