316 BC - Deaths

Deaths

  • Olympias, Epirote princess, wife of Macedonian king Philip II and the mother of Alexander the Great (b. c. 376 BC)
  • Eumenes, Greek general and diadochi (b. c. (362 BC)
  • Sun Bin, Chinese military strategist and general from the State of Qi


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