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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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)