40s BC deaths

Burebista () was the king of the Getae and Dacian tribes from 82/61BC to 45/44BC. He was the first king who successfully unified the tribes of the Dacian kingdom, which comprised the area located between the Danube, Tisza, and Dniester rivers, and modern day Romania and Moldova. In the 7th and 6thcenturies BC it became home to the Thracian peoples, including the Getae and the Dacians. From the 4thcentury to the middle of the 2ndcentury BC the Dacian peoples were influenced by La Tène Celts who brought new technologies with them into Dacia. Sometime in the 2ndcentury BC, the Dacians expelled th

Roman statesman and general

Roman consul 58 BC

1st century BC Roman poet and orator

Pothinus or Potheinos (; early 1st century BC – 48 or 47 BC), a eunuch, was regent for Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. He is most remembered for turning Ptolemy against his sister and co-ruler Cleopatra, thus starting a civil war, and for having Pompey decapitated and presenting the severed head to Julius Caesar according to some sources.

elected roman consul for 65 BC

Roman consul 47 BC

Cornificia (c. 85 BCc. 40 BC) was a Roman poet and writer of epigrams of the 1st century BC.

Rhetoric tutor of Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (died 43/42 BC)

Ancient Roman soldier

Roman consul 49 BC

quaestor 54 BC

Deiotarus of Galatia (in Galatian and Greek Deiotaros, surnamed Philoromaios ("Friend of the Romans"); 42 BC, 41 BC or 40 BC) was a Chief Tetrarch of the Tolistobogii in western Galatia, Asia Minor, and a King of Galatia ("Gallo-Graecia"). He was considered one of the most adept of Celtic kings, ruling the three tribes of Celtic Galatia from his fortress in Blucium.

ancient Greek philosopher

sister of Cato the Younger, half-sister of Servilia

legate during the Third Mithridatic War

strategos of Cyprus and admiral of the Ptolemaic navy during the reign of Cleopatra VII in 43 BC