2nd-century deaths

Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD), better known mononymously as Ptolemy, was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science. The first was his astronomical treatise now known as the Almagest, originally entitled '''' (, 'Mathematical Treatise'). The second is the Geography, which is a thorough discussion on maps and the geographic knowledge of the Greco-Roman world. The third is the astrological treatise in which he a

Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed philosophers and priests, speculative beliefs about the nature of the universe, religious practices, and superstitions. Although his native language was probably Syriac, all of his extant works are written entirely in ancient Greek (mostly in the Attic Greek dialect popular during the Second Sophistic period).

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (), commonly referred to as Suetonius ( ; – after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is De vita Caesarum, commonly known in English as The Twelve Caesars, a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian. Other works by Suetonius concerned the daily life of Rome, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians. A few of these books have partially survived, but many have been lost.

Publius Helvius Pertinax ( ; 1 August 126 – 28 March 193) was Roman emperor for the first three months of 193, succeeding Commodus and becoming the first ruler of the turbulent Year of the Five Emperors.

Arrian of Nicomedia (; Greek: Arrianós; ; )

2nd century Roman author and grammarian

Ancient Roman Eunuch and saint

Emperor of the Han dynasty from 168 to 189

Emperor of the Han dynasty in 189

1st/2nd century AD Greek physician

Roman jurist and politician

Christian bishop and saint

Christian saint and one of the seventy disciples of Jesus

Han dynasty regent and general (died 189)

late 1st/early 2nd century Roman senator, consul and governor

Christian saints and martyrs

mother of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius

group of humans

gladiator and assassin of Emperor Commodus

thumb|upright|Targum from the 11th century Onkelos ( ʾunqəlōs), possibly identical to Aquila of Sinope, was a Roman national who converted to Judaism in Tannaic times ( 35–120 CE). He is considered to be the author of the Targum Onkelos ( 110 CE).

late 1st/early 2nd century Roman senator, consul and governor

Sanatruk (Latinized as Sanatruces) was a member of the Arsacid dynasty of Armenia who succeeded Tiridates I of Armenia as King of Armenia at the end of the 1st century. He was also King of Osroene (reigned 91–109), a historic kingdom located in Mesopotamia.

2nd century Roman senator, governor and general

late 1st/early 2nd century Roman senator, consul and general

1st-century AD Roman senator, twice consul

late 1st/early 2nd century Roman praetorian prefect

daughter of Roman Emperor Didius Julianus

Roman military leader and statesman (born 96)

2nd century Roman martyr and German saint

2nd century Roman senator, consul and governor

Roman consul in 95 and 129 AD

Roman consul in 94 and 125 AD

daughter of emperor Marcus Aurelius

2nd century Roman senator and consul

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half-sister of Roman empress Vibia Sabina

2nd century Roman senator and consul

Jewish sage 1st and 2nd centuries CE

late 1st/early 2nd century Roman tribune, consul and governor

maternal grandfather of Marucs Aurelius

Jewish rabbi

2nd century Roman senator, official and suffect consul

Babatha bat Shimʿon, also known as Babata ( – after 132) was a Jewish woman who lived in the town of Maḥoza at the southeastern tip of the Dead Sea in what is now Jordan at the beginning of the 2nd century CE.

Roman consul in 105 AD, friend of Quintilian and the poet Statius

Roman consul 128 AD

late 1st/early 2nd century Greco-Roman senator and consul

Han dynasty official and general (110-184)

2nd century Roman jurist

Late 1st/early 2nd century Roman senator, magistrate, consul and governor

writer on cookery who found a way of packing fresh oysters in the second century CE

2nd-century ruler of Elymais

late 1st/early 2nd century Roman senator, military tribune, praetor and governor

Roman suffect consul 98 AD

Damis () was a student and lifelong companion of Apollonius of Tyana, the famous Neopythagorean philosopher and teacher who lived in the early 1st up to the early 2nd century AD.

Greek grammarian

Early 2nd century king of Characene

woman of the high Roman Empire

2nd century king of the Parthian state of Characene

Late 1st/early 2nd century Roman senator and governor