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This article concerns the period 129 BC – 120 BC.
Births
128 BC
- Liu Ju, Chinese prince of the Han dynasty (d. 91 BC)
125 BC
- Quintus Sertorius, Roman statesman and general (d. 73 BC)
121 BC
- Publius Sulpicius Rufus, Roman statesman (d. 88 BC)
- Quintus Sertorius, Roman general (d. 72 BC)
120 BC
- May 21 – Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (d. 54 BC)
- Berenice III, reigning Queen of Egypt (d. 80 BC)
- Lucius Cornelius Sisenna, writer and politician (d. 67 BC)
- Verres, corrupt praetor (approximate date) (d. 43 BC)
Deaths
129 BC
- Antiochus VII Sidetes (killed in battle)
- Carneades, philosopher, and founder of Third Academy (b. c. 214 BC)
- P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus (Africanus the Younger) (b. 185 BC)
128 BC
- Liu Fei, Chinese prince of the Han dynasty (b. 169 BC)
- Phraates II, king of Parthia (approximate date)
127 BC
- Nicomedes II (Epiphanes), king of Bithynia
- Zhufu Yan, Chinese politician and official of the Han dynasty (or 126 BC)
126 BC
- Phraates II, king of the Parthian Empire
- Wang Zhi, Chinese empress of the Han dynasty (b. 173 BC)
125 BC
- Demetrius II, king of the Seleucid Empire
- Seleucus V Philometor (killed by Cleopatra Thea)
124 BC
- Artabanus II of Parthia
123 BC
- Alexander II Zabinas, king of the Seleucid Empire
122 BC
121 BC
- Cleopatra Thea, Seleucid queen
- Gaius Gracchus, Roman politician (b. 154 BC)
- Marcus Fulvius Flaccus, Roman consul
120 BC
- Hipparchus, Greek astronomer and mathematician, on Rhodes (approximate date) (b. c. 190 BC)