54 BC - Deaths

Deaths

  • July 31 – Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (b. 120)
  • Gaius Valerius Catullus, Roman poet (b. 84 BC)
  • Huo Chengjun, Empress of the Han Dynasty of China
  • Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar, wife of Pompey (in childbirth) (b. 83 or 82 BC)
  • Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta, Roman legate of Julius Caesar
  • Lucius Valerius Flaccus, urban praetor
  • Mithridates III, king of Parthia
  • Quintus Titurius Sabinus, Roman legate of Julius Caesar

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