Births

• 239 BC – Quintus Ennius, Latin poet and writer, considered the father of Roman poetry (d. 169 BC)
• 236 BC – Scipio Africanus, Roman general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic (d. 183 BC) (approximate date) (d. 183 BC)
• 234 BC
  • Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder), Roman statesman, (d. 149 BC)
  • Mete Khan, Xiongnu emperor, (d. 174 BC)
• 232 BC – Xiang Yu, Chinese rebel general against the Qin Dynasty, as well as the later arch nemesis of Liu Bang in the civil war of the Chu-Han contention (d. 202 BC)

Deaths

• 239 BC
  • Antigonus II Gonatas, King of Macedon from 277 BC who has rebuilt his kingdom's power and established its hegemony over Greece (b. c. 319 BC)
  • Diodotus I, King of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (approximate date)
• 238 BC
  • Andragoras, Seleucid satrap (governor) of Parthia
  • Xun Zi, Chinese philosopher (approximate date)
• 237 BC – Xun Zi, Confucian philosopher who has contributed to one of the Hundred Schools of Thought (b. c. 310 BC)
• 234 BC
  • Pharnavaz I of Iberia, King of Georgia
  • Zenodotus of Ephesus, first librarian of the Library of Alexandria
• 233 BC – Han Fei, Chinese philosopher who, along with Li Si, has developed Xun Zi's philosophy into the doctrine embodied by the School of Law (or Legalism) (b. c. 280 BC)
• 232 BC
  • Ashoka, Indian emperor, who has ruled the Maurya Empire across the Indian subcontinent from 273 BC (b. 304 BC)
  • Cleanthes of Assos, Stoic philosopher who has been the head of the Stoic school from 263 BC, after the death of Zeno of Citium (b. c. 301 BC)
• 230 BC
  • Ad Herbal, admiral of the Carthaginian fleet who has battled for domination of the Mediterranean Sea for Carthage in the First Punic War against Rome
  • Aristarchus of Samos, Greek astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 310 BC)

References

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