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Roman Emperor (173-238)

Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus (July/August 238 AD) was Roman emperor with Pupienus for three months in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors.

Ulpian (; ; 223 or 228) was a Roman jurist born in Tyre in Roman Syria (modern Lebanon). He moved to Rome and rose to become considered one of the great legal authorities of his time. He was one of the five jurists upon whom decisions were to be based according to the Law of Citations of Valentinian III, and supplied the Justinian Digest about a third of its contents.

Roman author and teacher (c.175–c.235)

Herodian or Herodianus (), sometimes referred to as Herodian of Antioch (c. 170 – c. 240), was a minor Roman civil servant who wrote a colourful history in Greek titled History of the Empire from Marcus onwards (τῆς μετὰ Μάρκον βασιλείας ἱστορία) in eight books covering the years 180 to 238. His work is not considered entirely reliable, although his less biased account of Elagabalus may be more useful than that of Cassius Dio. The origin of Herodian is contested in scholarship, popular hypotheses being Syria, Alexandria in Egypt and Asia Minor. However, he appears to have lived for a considera

Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus (; ; 170s – 240s AD), called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period. His father was a minor sophist of the same name. He flourished during the reign of Septimius Severus (193–211) and died during that of Philip the Arab (244–249), probably in Tyre.

3rd century Chinese poet and musician

Chinese warlord Cao Cao's eldest son (c.177–197)

Chinese adviser to warlord Cao Cao (died 234)

grandson of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius

Cao Wei state official and general (177—230)

Chinese state of Cao Wei general (c.171–c.252)

Roman aristocrat and consul (c.175-c.212)

Cao Wei politician (172-249)