660s BC deaths

Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (, also , meaning "Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BC. The third king of the Sargonid dynasty, Esarhaddon is most famous for his conquest of Egypt in 671 BC, which made his empire the largest the world had ever seen, and for his reconstruction of Babylon, which had been destroyed by his father.

Taharqa, also spelled Taharka or Taharqo, ; ; Manetho's , ; Strabo's , ), was a pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt and qore (king) of the Kingdom of Kush (present day Sudan) from 690 to 664 BC. He was one of the Black Pharaohs – also called Nubian or Kushite Pharaohs – who ruled over Egypt for nearly a century.

ancient Egyptian ruler of the city of Sais, father of Psammetich I

ruler of the Zhou Dynasty, Chinese state of Qin

ruler of the Zhou Dynasty, in China

ruler of Lu

ruler of Lu

Ziban (; ; died 6 October 662 BC), personal name Ji Ban (姬般), was a ruler of the Lu state. He is generally known in historiography as Ziban due to his reign being less than a year long, as Ziban died in the same year as his father, Duke Zhuang.

person (CBDB = 134936)