Hillel the Elder

100 BC–

Jewish religious leader of the 1st century

rabbi

Born in Babylon

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• Ovid (42 BC–17)
• Cleopatra (68 BC–29 BC)
• Horace (64 BC–7 BC)
• Sima Qian (144 BC–85 BC)

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