Cleopatra
69 BC – 30 BC · 39 years · Alexandria · Africa
Last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, ally of Caesar and Mark Antony; she took her own life after defeat at Actium.
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Portrait: Louis le Grand · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Augustus — first Roman emperor, 6 years younger
- Julius Caesar — Roman general and dictator, 31 years older
- Virgil — Roman poet, 1 year older
- Cicero — Roman orator and statesman, 37 years older
- Pompey the Great — Roman general and statesman, 37 years older
- Livia Drusilla — wife of Augustus, first Roman empress, 10 years younger
Middle East
- Herod the Great — king of Judea, 3 years older
Africa
- Amanirenas — queen (kandake) of Kush, 9 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 58 BC–50 BC Caesar's conquest of Gaul — aged 11, Europe
- 44 BC Assassination of Julius Caesar — aged 25, Europe
- 31 BC Battle of Actium — aged 38, Europe
- 30 BC Death of Cleopatra — aged 39, Africa